NCT04529876

Data Analysis for Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer's Medicines (DREAM) - Tofacitinib vs Abatacept

Data Analysis for Drug Repurposing for Effective Alzheimer's Medicines - Tofacitinib vs Abatacept

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 29,464 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication.

Detailed description

This is a non-randomized, non-interventional study that is part of the DREAM Study of Brigham and Women's Hospital. DREAM is led by Dr. Madhav Thambisetty, MD, PhD, Chief of the Clinical and Translational Neuroscience Section, Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging (NIA) intramural research program. This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication using healthcare claims data.

Conditions

• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Tofacitinib	Tofacitinib claim is used as the reference group.
DRUG	Abatacept	Abatacept claim is used as the exposure group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-08-17
• Primary completion: 2021-08-31
• Completion: 2021-08-31
• First posted: 2020-08-28
• Last updated: 2021-11-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated drug study