Krumholz conducted an analysis [4] of published and unpublished trials in , which indicated that the cardiovascular harm signal for Vioxx compared with placebo could have been highlighted as early as Data used in the analysis were not publicly available when rofecoxib was being marketed but became available later through litigation. In December , it emerged that three additional myocardial infarction events that had occurred in the Vioxx arm of the VIGOR trial had not been included in the published paper, calling into the question the integrity of the rest of the data [5].
He believes members of the committee were vulnerable to criticism because they were paid by MSD to participate in the committee, but also to be independent. Silman has not sat on an industry-funded DSM committee since.
Number of Vioxx rofecoxib prescription items dispensed in the community in England. After Vioxx was withdrawn, there were numerous papers and discussion on the increased risk of cardiovascular events with all NSAIDS and labelling changes were made.
It proved to be complex: not all COX-2 inhibitors have the same cardiovascular risks and not all non-selective NSAIDs have the same cardiovascular risks. It is not possible to say how many people in the UK might have died as a result of taking Vioxx, but the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency MHRA says it is estimated that COX-2 inhibitors may be associated with about three additional thrombotic events, such as heart attack and stroke, per 1, patients per year in the general population.
Chris Deighton, a consultant rheumatologist at the Royal Derby Hospital, who is a former president of the British Society for Rheumatology, says the Vioxx experience made society more conscious that it might not be seeing all the necessary data when it came to company-sponsored randomised clinical trials.
Deighton thinks clinical trial data are now scrutinised more closely by drug regulators. New EU pharmacovigilance legislation came into force in mid, after a review of drug safety systems in Its objectives are the better collection of data, improved analysis and timeliness of procedures and greater transparency. Over the past ten years, the system of safety monitoring of medicines has been fundamentally re-shaped, he says, allowing for a more proactive management of potential safety concerns and strengthened post-marketing surveillance of medicines.
Ten years on, scientists are still debating whether MSD should have withdrawn Vioxx, with some arguing that it was a mistake. You start with some restrictions on the use of the product, move it to second-line use, then third-line use and then withdraw it completely.
He points out that some patients are willing to take a drug even if they have a cardiovascular risk factor. The joke at the time of its withdrawal was that every rheumatologist was stockpiling Vioxx because of its efficacy. Neither does Silman think Vioxx should have been withdrawn, since it proved to be a very effective anti-inflammatory drug. If MSD had not withdrawn the drug, perhaps regulators would have deemed that it not be used in patients with pre-existing heart conditions and the elderly, Silman ponders.
For industry, data mining on the real use of a product, as opposed to relying on data from clinical trials, will complement spontaneous adverse drug reaction ADR reports to provide real data on effectiveness and safety to payers and reimbursement bodies. Vioxx changed the way pharmacovigilance departments operated within companies and it contributed to a greater emphasis in place now on the role of risk management plans — studies that companies must do after a product gains a licence, rather than relying on ADR reporting.
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