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European biomarker study seeks response indicators for CGRP mAbs

Identifying patients most likely to respond to CGRP mAbs will be key to improving access to this important group of new drugs, and a study in Italy, Germany and Spain is investigating an array of demographic, clinical, psychological, cognitive, epigenetic, pharmacogenetic, biochemical and imaging markers. “We are not expecting to see a single biomarker that …

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Ligand- and receptor-binding CGRP mAbs are equally effective

There is no difference in efficacy between ligand- and receptor-binding CGRP mAbs and there is no evidence that any one mAb works better than another, agreed speakers in response to questions at a joint session of the World Federation of Neurology and the International Headache Society. “Based on Phase 3 clinical studies, we don’t see …

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Changing migraine patterns after erenumab and influence of personality and stress

One in three patients treated with erenumab at an Italian centre reverted from chronic to episodic migraine after one month, and 71% by the end of one year of treatment, reported Dr Gloria Vaghi, from the University of Pavia, Italy. The real world study, in 82 patients with chronic migraine who had failed on at …

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Response to fremanezumab in Korean patients compares well with pivotal HALO studies

Reduction in migraine headache days in patients treated with fremanezumab in Korea compares well with reductions seen in the pivotal Phase 3 HALO studies in episodic and chronic migraine. Results of two phase 2b/3 studies in Korea, with the same design as the HALO trials, showed similar reductions in monthly headache days (MHDs) and responder …

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Rapid effects of CGRP mAbs highlighted in real world study

Nearly six out of 10 patients with chronic migraine had a significant clinical response to erenumab or galcanezumab in the first four weeks of treatment in a retrospective real world study reported from ASST Spedali Civili Brescia, Italy. Of the 74 consecutive patients who were enrolled, 64 had documented medication overuse, and 50 patients were …

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Fewer patients discontinue CGRP mAbs than other migraine preventives

Patients taking CGRP mAbs are less likely to discontinue treatment within 12 months than those taking other approved preventive therapies for migraine, according to US claims data from over 4,500 patients prescribed CGRP mAbs and nearly 11,000 taking other preventives. Over a 12-month follow-up, 58.8% of CGRP mAb and 77.6% of non‑CGRP initiators discontinued therapy …

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