Once-daily treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an inhaler combining fluticasone furoate (FF), umeclidinium (UMEC) and vilanterol (VI) reduced all-cause mortality by 42 percent.
Once-daily treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with an inhaler combining fluticasone furoate (FF), umeclidinium (UMEC) and vilanterol (VI) reduced all-cause mortality by 42 percent, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
More than 10,000 IMPACT participants with COPD who were at risk for severe exacerbations (flare-ups) were randomized to be in one of three groups: those receiving once-daily inhalations of FF/UMEC/VI, FF/VI or UMEC/VI combinations .IMPACT participants were followed for one year.
The initial IMPACT study showed that daily inhalation of FF/UMEC/VI led to more significant reductions in moderate/severe exacerbations and COPD hospitalizations, as well as improved lung function and health-related quality of life than the two dual combination therapies. also showed patients on triple therapy had lower death rates than those on VI/UMEC.
Data from 5.5 percent of participants were removed from the one-year analysis, however, because some investigators did not report vital status data for all-cause mortality at the end of the study.This new analysis includes vital status data for 99.6 percent of IMPACT participants.
"Because the number of missing patients exceeded the numbers of deaths in the study we felt caution was warranted in the interpretation of the original published findings," said Dr. Lipson, senior director, clinical sciences, GlaxoSmithKline and adjunct associate professor of medicine, Perelman. School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. "Given the importance of this finding for patients and physicians we undertook a global collection of the missing data at week 52. improve survival in symptomatic patients with COPD at risk of exacerbation."
The study focused on patients with a history of exacerbations of their COPD.
Dr. Lipson added, "We believe that the mortality finding with FF/UMEC/VI compared to UMEC/VI was primarily driven by the steroid component and its effect on reducing exacerbations, especially hospitalized exacerbations. Frequently exacerbating patients are at higher risk of hospitalization and death. These are the patients who appear to achieve the greatest survival benefit with once-daily FF/UMEC/VI triple therapy."
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