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多発性硬化症患者における多剤併用処方の有病率、関連要因、および経時的変化
Ting Zhao1, Hasnat Ahmad1, Huah Shin Ng2
1Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania, Medical Sciences Precinct, 17 Liverpool Street, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7000.
Multiple sclerosis and related disorders
|January 22, 2026
まとめ
オーストラリアの多発性硬化症患者において、多剤併用処方は一般的であり増加傾向にあります。高齢者、障害度が高く併存疾患が多い、教育水準が低い患者が最も影響を受けており、投薬の見直しが必要です。
科学分野:
- 神経学
- 薬理学
- 公衆衛生
背景:
- 多発性硬化症患者は、症状管理と併存疾患のために多剤併用処方のリスクが高いことが知られています。
- 多発性硬化症患者集団における多剤併用処方のパターンと傾向に関する研究は限られています。
研究 の 目的:
- オーストラリアで多発性硬化症と診断された患者における多剤併用処方の有病率、寄与要因、および経時的傾向を調査すること。
- このコホートにおける多剤併用処方に関連する特定の人口統計学的および臨床的要因を特定すること。
主な方法:
- オーストラリア多発性硬化症縦断研究および医薬品給付制度(PBS)のデータ(2017-2022年)を利用しました。
- 多剤併用処方を、年間少なくとも4回処方された5種類以上の薬剤の使用と定義しました。
- 対数二項回帰およびポアソン回帰モデルを用いて、有病率、関連要因、および多剤併用処方の年次変化を分析しました。
主要な成果:
- 2022年には、多発性硬化症患者の24%が多剤併用処方(低〜中程度:22%、ハイパー多剤併用処方:3%)を経験しました。
- 高齢、障害、併存疾患の数、教育水準の低さが多剤併用処方の可能性の増加と関連していました。
- 2型糖尿病、高血圧、高コレステロール血症、うつ病などの病状が、多剤併用処方の有病率の高さと関連していました。
- 多剤併用処方は年間平均4.51%増加しました。
結論:
- 多剤併用処方は、オーストラリアの多発性硬化症患者にとって一般的で増加している問題です。
- 障害度が高く、併存疾患が増加し、教育水準が低い高齢の多発性硬化症患者は、ケアと安全性を最適化するために、標的を絞った投薬の見直しが必要です。
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