<PRNewswire> ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌ์์์ํ๊ฐ์์ค์์ฑ์๊ฐ์กฐ - ERS 2012 ๊ธฐ์ํ๊ฒฌ์์๋ฐํ๋์๋ก์ด๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์ - ( ๋น 2012 ๋ 9 ์ 2 ์ผ PRNewswire= ์ฐํฉ๋ด์ค ) 28 ์ผ, Takeda ๊ฐ 9 ์ 1-5 ์ผ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์๋น์์์ด๋ฆฌ๋ 2012 ์ ๋ฝํธํก๊ธฐํํ (European Respiratory Society, ERS) ์ฐ๋กํ์๊ด๋ จ๊ธฐ์ํ๊ฒฌ์์๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฅผ๋ฐํํ๋ค. ๋ฉํฐ๋ฏธ๋์ด๋ฐฐํฌ์๋ฃ๋์๋์น์ฌ์ดํธ์์ํ์ธํ ์์๋ค. http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56582-expert-report-on-copd-launch ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ํจ๋ฌ๋ค์์ ํ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ช ๋ช ๋์ด๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH ์ด์์ฑํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ฃผ์๊ตญ์ ํธํก๊ธฐ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ, ์ ๋ฝ์๋ฌ์ง๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋์งํํ์์ฐ๋งน (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association, EFA) ๋ฐ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ํ์๋ค๋ก๊ตฌ์ฑ๋ํจ๋์ํ๊ฐ๋ ผ๋ฌธ๋ค๋ก๊ตฌ์ฑ๋ผ๊ฐฑ์ ๋์๋ด์์ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ๋ฐ์ํ๋ค. ์ด์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋์ต๊ทผ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌ์์ญ์ ๋ณํ์๋์ํด์์์ฑ๋๋ค. ํ์ฌ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๋ํ์ฌ์งํ์น๋ฃ๋งํผ์ด๋๋ฏธ๋์ํ๊ฐ์์์ญ์ ์๋๊ณ ์๋ค.[1] ์น๋ฃ๋ชฉ์ ์๋์ฒด๋ก์ฆ์๊ฐ์์์ํ๊ฐ์๋๋ถ๋ถ์ผ๋ก๋๋๋ค.[1] ์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ฐํ์๊ด๋ จํด College of Family Physicians of Canada ์ํธํก๊ธฐ์ํํน๋ณ๊ด์ฌํฌ์ปค์ค๊ทธ๋ฃน์์ฅ์ธ Dr Alan Kaplan ์ GOLD(Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) ์์ํ๋ฉด, ์์ ์ ์ธ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ํ์ฌ์ฆ์์๋ฌผ๋ก ๋ฏธ๋์งํ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ์ํํ๊ฐ๋ฅผ๋ฐํ์ผ๋กํด์ผํ๋ค ๋ฉด์ ์ฌํ๊ด์งํ์ํฌํจํด์๋ง์๋ค๋ฅธ์ง๋ณ์์์ด๋ฏธ์๋ฐฉ์์ค์์ฑ์ด์์๋ ค์ ธ์๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ผ์๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์์๋์๋ฐฉ์์ค์์ฑ์์ธ์ ํ๊ณ , ์๋ฐฉ์๋ชฉํ๋กํ๋๊ฒ์ด์ค์ํ๋ค. ์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ชฉ์ ์ GP, ๊ฐํธ์ฌ๋ฐ์ปจ์คํดํธ๋ฅผํฌํจํดํธํก๊ธฐ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ถ๋ฌธ๋ด๋ชจ๋ ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ด๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์์ง์ํ๊ณ , ์ด๋ค์ด์ข๋์ ๋ณด์๊ธฐ๋ฐํ๊ฒฐ์ ์๋ด๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ฒฝ๊ณผ๋ฅผํฅ์์ํฌ์์๋ํฅ์๋๊ด๋ฆฌ์์กฐ์ธ์๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ํ์๋ค์๊ฒ์ ๊ณตํ๋๋ก์ ์๊ณผ์๋ด๋ฅผํ๋๊ฒ ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค. ์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌํจ๋ฌ๋ค์์ ํ๊ณผ๋๋ถ์ด๋ฏธ๋์ํ์๋์ฑ์ด์ ์๋ง์ถ๋๊ฒ์ด์์ค์ํ์ง๋ค๋ฃจ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์ผ์์ ์ธ๊ดํ์ผ๋ก์์๋ฐฉ์ ์ด๊ณ ๊ฐ์ธํ๋์ํํ๊ฐ์คํ๊ณผ๊ด๋ จํด์ฌํ๊ด์งํ๋ถ๋ฌธ์์๋ฐฐ์ธ์์๋๊ตํ, ์ฆ๊ฐ์ ์ธํจ๊ณผ๋ณด๋ค๋์ง์์ ์ธํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ์ ๊ณตํ๋์ค์ฌ์ ์ง์๊ด๋ จํด๊ธ์ ์ ์ธํ์ - ์์ฌ๊ด๊ณ์์ค์์ฑ๊ณผ์ํฅ๋ฐ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ฆฌํจ๋ฌ๋ค์์ ํ์์ง์ํ๊ธฐ์ํ์ ์ฝ๋ฐ๋น์ ์ฝ์ค์ฌ๋ฑ์๊ฒํ ํ๊ณ ์๋ค. ์๋ก์ด GOLD ํ๊ฐ์๊ณ ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ (A-D) ์์์ ์ํํ์๋ถ๋ฅ์์๋ค์ํ์น๋ฃ์ค์ฌ์ํจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ์ฆ๋ช ํ๋์๋ฃ๋์์ง๋์ค์ง์์์ง๋ง, ์๋ก์ดํญ์ผ์ฆ์ roflumilast ์๊ธฐ๊ด์งํ์ฅ์ ์ํจ๊ป๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๊ด๋ จ๋ง์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ด์ง์ผ, ์ค์ฆํ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์๋ฐ์์ฃผ์ ํ๊ฐ๋ฐ์ํ๋ (GOLD ์ D ๋ถ๋ฅ ) ํ์์์ฒ๋ฐฉํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์ค๋ฑ๋ / ์ค์ฆ์ ํ๊ฐ์ ์ํ๊ฒ๊ฐ์ํ๋๊ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.[2] ์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์๋ ERS 2012 ์์๋ฐํ๋์ฌํ๋ถ์๋๋ฐํ์ผ๋กํ๋ค. ์ด์ฌํ๋ถ์์๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ์ค๋ฑ๋์์์ค์ฆํ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์์๊ธฐ์ค์ mmrc ๋ฑ๊ธ 2 (GOLD ์ B ์ D ๋ถ๋ฅ ) ์ธ์ฆํ์ฑ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ํ์์ tiotropium ์๋๋ถ์ด roflumilast ๋ฅผ์ฒ๋ฐฉํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ, ์ ํ๊ฐ 45% ์ ์ํ๊ฒ๊ฐ์๋๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.[3] ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๋์ ์ธ๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก์ฌ๋ง, ์ง๋ณ๋ฐ๊ฑด๊ฐ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋น์ฉ์๋ฐ์์ํค๋์ฃผ์์์ธ์ผ๋ก์์ฝ 2 ์ต 1 ์ฒ๋ง๋ช ์๊ฒ์ํฅ์๋ฏธ์น๋ค. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๋๋ํ์ด๋ณ๋ฅ ๊ณผ์ฌ๋ง๋ฅ ์์ฃผ์์์ธ์ด๊ธฐ๋ํ๋ค. 2030 ๋ ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๋์ธ๊ณ์ฌ๋ง์์ธ 3 ์๊ฐ๋ ์ ๋ง์ด๋ค.[4]
ํ์๋ค์ด๊ฒฝํํ๋์ ํ์์๋ฅผ์ค์ด๋๊ฒ์์ฌ์ ํ์ถฉ์กฑ๋์ง์์์ฃผ์๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์์์ด๋ค. ํต๊ณ์๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด, ํ์๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ณ ํ์ง์๋์ ํ๊ฐ์ต๋ 50% ์๋ฌํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.[5] ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์ ํ๋ํ์์๊ฑด๊ฐ์ํ๋ฅผ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๋๊ฐ์ฅ์ค์ํ์ธ์์ด์, ์น๋ฃ์์๋ฐฉ๊ด์ ์์์ค์ํ์น๋ฃ๋ชฉํ์ด๋ค. ํธ์ง์์ฃผ : ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์๊ฐ ์์ฒญ์์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ค๋ช ์์ ๊ณตํ๋ค. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์๊ดํ์๋ก์ด์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์์ ์๋ค์๊ฐ ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์๊ดํ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ณด๊ณ ์์๋ํธํก๊ธฐ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ถ๋ฌธ์ฃผ์์ดํด๊ด๊ณ์๋ค์ด์ฐธ์ฌํ๋ค. - Dr Ondrej Rybnicek, ์ ๋ฝ์๋ฌ์ง๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋์งํํ์์ฐ๋งน (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association, EFA) - Dr Stephen Rennard, Larson ์ํ๊ต์, ๋ค๋ธ๋ผ์ค์นด์ฃผ์ค๋งํ, ๋ค๋ธ๋ผ์ค์นด๋ํ๋ณ์๋ด๊ณผ - Prof Andrew McIvor, ์ํ๊ต์, ์บ๋๋ค๋งฅ๋ง์คํฐ๋ํ - Dr Alan Kaplan, Chairperson, College of Family Physicians of Canada ์ํธํก๊ธฐ์ํํน๋ณ๊ด์ฌํฌ์ปค์ค๊ทธ๋ฃน์์ฅ - Prof WisiaWedzicha, ํธํก๊ธฐ๊ต์, ๋ฐ๋๋ํํธํก๊ธฐ์ผํฐ - Prof Robert Horne, UCL School of Pharmacy ํ๋์ํ๊ต์, ์คํ๊ณผ์ ์ฑ ๋ถ๋ถ์ฅ๋ฐํ๋์ํ์ผํฐ์์ฅ - ์ ๋ฝ์๋ฌ์ง๋ฐ๊ธฐ๋์งํํ์์ฐ๋งน (European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association, EFA) ์์๋ฌ์ง, ์ฒ์๋ฐ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ํ์๋จ์ฒด๋ค๋ก๊ตฌ์ฑ๋์ ๋ฝ๋คํธ์ํฌ๋ก์์ ๋ณด, ๊ต์ก, ๋๋ฃ์ฐ๋ฝ๋ฐ์ฌ์ ์ง์์์ ๊ณตํจ์ผ๋ก์จํ์์ด์ต์๋๋ชจํ๋ค. http://www.efanet.org/ Roflumilast ์๊ฐ Roflumilast ๋์๋ก์ด์์ฉ๋ฐฉ์์๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์ผ์ฆ์๊ณต๋ตํ๋๋ก๊ฐ๋ฐ๋์ต์ด์ํญ์ผ์ฆ์ ๋ค. Roflumilast ์ํ์ฑ์ฑ๋ถ roflumilast ๋๊ฐ๋ ฅํ PDE4 ํจ์์ ํ์ต์ ์ ๋ค.[6] ๋ค๊ฑด์๋๊ท๋ชจ๋ฌด์์์์ฝ๋์กฐ์คํ์์ค์ํ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ, roflumilast ๋์ฅ๊ธฐ์์ฉ์ํ๋๊ธฐ๊ด์งํ์ฅ์ ์ํจ๊ป์ฒ๋ฐฉํ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ์ ํ๋ฅผ์ ์ํ๊ฒ์ค์ด๊ณ , ํ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์๊ฐ์ ํ๋๊ฒ์ผ๋ก๋ํ๋ฌ๋ค.[7,8,9] EU ์์ Roflumilast ๋์ ํ๊ฐ์์ฃผ๋ฐ์ํ๋์ฑ์ธํ์์๋ง์ฑ๊ธฐ๊ด์ง์ผ๊ณผ๊ด๋ จ๋์ค์ฆ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD)(FEV1 ๊ธฐ๊ด์งํ์ฅ์ ์ฒ๋ฐฉํ 50% ์ดํ์์ธก ) ๋ฅผ์น๋ฃํ๊ธฐ์ํด์๊ธฐ๊ด์งํ์ฅ์ ์๋๋ถ์ด์ฒ๋ฐฉ๋๋ค.[10] ์์์คํ์๋ 1 ๋ง 2 ์ฒ๋ช ์ด๋๋ํ์๋ค์ด์ฐธ๊ฐํ๋ค. Roflumilast ๋์ ๋ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก๋ด์ฑ์ด์ข์๋ค. ํ์๋ค์ด๋ณด๊ณ ํ๊ฐ์ฅํํ๋ถ์์ฉ์์ค์ฌ (5.9%), ์ฒด์ค๊ฐ์ (3.4%), ์ค์ฌ (2.9%), ๋ณตํต (1.9%) ๋ฐ๋ํต (1.7%) ์ด์๋ค. ์ด๋ค๋ถ์์ฉ์๋๋ถ๋ถ๊ฒฝ์ฆ์ด๊ฑฐ๋์ค๋ฑ๋์์ค์๋ณด์๋ค. ์ด๋ค๋ถ์์ฉ์์ฃผ๋ก์น๋ฃ์ด๊ธฐ์๋ฐ์ํ์ผ๋ฉฐ, ๋๋ถ๋ถ์น๋ฃ๊ฐ์ง์๋๋ฉด์ํด์๋๋ค.[10] Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH ์๊ฐ ์ทจ๋ฆฌํ์๋ณธ์ฌ๊ฐ์์นํ Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH ๋์ผ๋ณธ์ค์ฌ์นด์์์นํ Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited ์์์ ์์ ์ํ์ฌ๋ค. ์ฐ๊ตฌ๊ธฐ๋ฐ๊ตญ์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ Takeda ๋์์ฝํ์์ค์ ์๋๋ค. ์ผ๋ณธ์ต๋์์ ์ฝํ์ฌ์ด์์ธ๊ณ์ต๊ณ ์์ ์ฝํ์ฌ์ค
ํ๋์ธ Takeda ๋์ฃผ๋์ ์ธ์ํํ์ ์ํตํด์ ์ธ๊ณํ์๋ค์๊ฑด๊ฐ์์ฆ์ง์ํค๋๋ฐ์ ๋ ํ๋ค. Takeda ์๊ดํ์ถ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด๋ํ์ฌ์น์ฌ์ดํธ http://www.takeda.com ์์ฐธ์กฐํ๋ค. ์ฐธ์กฐ๋ฌธํ 1. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์ง๋จ, ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฐ์๋ฐฉ์์ํ๊ตญ์ ์ ๋ต, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2011. http://www.goldcopd.org (accessed July 2012). 2. Bateman ED, Rabe KF, Calverley PM, et al. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ์์ํ์ง์ํ๋ฒ ํ 2- ์์ฉ์ฒด์์ฉ์ ๊ฐ๋ค์ด๊ฐ Roflumilast: ์ ํ๋ณ๋ ฅ์์ํฅ, EurRespir J 2011;38:553-560. 3. Fabbri LM, et al. ๊ณ ์ฆํ์ฑ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD) ํ์์์ roflumilast ์ํจ๊ณผ [ ์ด๋ก ]. ์ 22 ํ์ ๋ฝํธํก๊ธฐํํ์ฐ๋กํ์ : 2012 ๋ 9 ์ 1-5 ์ผ ; ์ค์คํธ๋ฆฌ์๋น : ERS; 2012. ์ด๋ก P742. 4. ์ธ๊ณ๋ณด๊ฑด๊ธฐ๊ตฌ (WHO). ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ (COPD). ํฉํธ์ํธ No 315. 2008. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs315/en/index.html (2012 ๋ 6 ์์ ์ ) 5. Seemungal TAR, Donaldson GC, Paul EA,Bestall JC, Jeffries DJ, Wedzicha JA. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํํ์์์์ ํ๊ฐ์ถ์์ง์๋ฏธ์น๋์ํฅ. Am J RespirCrit Care Med 1998;157:1418-1422 6. Hatzelmann A, et al. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ์งํ์์์ ํ์ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ phosphodiesterase 4 ์ต์ ์ roflumilast ์์์์ ์ฝ๋ฆฌํ, Pulm Pharm Ther 2010;23:235-256. 7. Calverley PMA, et al. ์ฆํ์ฑ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ์์ Roflumilast: ๋๊ฑด์๋ฌด์์์์์คํ. Lancet 2009; 374: 685-94. 8. Fabbri LM, et al. ์ง์ํ๊ธฐ๊ด์งํ์ฅ์ ๋ก์น๋ฃํ๋์ค๋ฑ๋ - ์ค์ฆ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ์์ Roflumilast: ๋๊ฑด์๋ฌด์์์์์คํ. Lancet 2009;374:695-703. 9. Rabe KF. ๋ง์ฑํ์์ฑํ์งํ์น๋ฃ๋ฅผ์ํ phosphodiesterase 4 ์ต์ ์ roflumilast ์์ ๋ฐ์ดํธ. Br J Pharm 2011;163:53-67. 10. EU ์ ํํน์ฑ์์ฝ, Daxas(R), 2011 ๋ 5 ์ (http://www.ema.europa.eu) ๋ณธ๋ฐฐํฌ์๋ฃ๋ Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH, Thurgauerstrasse 130, CH-8152 Glattpark-Opfikon (Zurich), Switzerland ์์ํด๋ฐฐํฌ๋๋ค. ์ถ์ฒ : Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH New Report Highlights Increased Importance of Risk Reduction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Management - New Expert Report on COPD Launched at a Press Conference at ERS 2012 - VIENNA, August 28, 2012/PRNewswire/ -- Takeda today announced the launch of a new expert Report on COPD, introduced at a Takeda organised press conference on the occasion of the 2012 European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress taking place from 1-5 September in Vienna, Austria. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/56582-expert-report-on-copd-launch The Report, entitled 'The Shifting Paradigm in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Management,' was initiated and developed by Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH and is a compilation of opinion articles from a panel of key international respiratory experts, the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association (EFA) and COPD patients, reflecting updated guidance and research. The new expert Report was developed in response to a recent shift in emphasis in COPD management which now places future risk at equal importance to treatment of current disability.[1] Treatment
objectives are now divided into two groups: reducing symptoms and reducing risk.[1] Speaking at the launch of the new expert Report Dr Alan Kaplan, Chairperson of the Respiratory Medicine Special Interest Focus Group of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, said: "The management of stable COPD should, according to the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), be based on a combined assessment of both the current symptom burden as well as the future risk of disease progression. The importance of prevention is well established in many other diseases, including cardiovascular disease, and it is essential that we recognise and target this in COPD. The new expert Report aims to support healthcare professionals at every level within respiratory care, including GPs, nurses and consultants; providing suggestions and guidance to help them in making more informed decisions and provide enhanced care and counsel to COPD patients to improve their outcomes." The shifting paradigm in COPD management is considered within the new expert Report, alongside why an increased focus on future risk is so important. This includes a review of what lessons can be learned from the cardiovascular arena with regard to implementing a predictive and personalised risk assessment as routine practice, the importance and impact of a positive patient-physician relationship with regard to maintaining adherence to interventions that provide long-term rather than immediate benefits, as well as a focus on the pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions available to support this shift in COPD management. Whilst there is no data yet showing the effect of different therapeutic interventions in the patient categories as defined by the new GOLD assessment algorithm (A-D), the novel anti-inflammatory agent, roflumilast, has been shown to provide significant reductions in moderate/severe exacerbations when added to bronchodilators in patients with COPD-associated chronic bronchitis, severe lung function impairment and a history of frequent exacerbations (GOLD category D).[2] The new expert Report draws on a post-hoc analysis presented at ERS 2012, which suggests that roflumilast significantly reduces exacerbations when added to tiotropium in symptomatic COPD patients with moderate to severe lung function impairment and a baseline mmrc grade 2 (GOLD category B and D) by 45 percent.[3] COPD is an important cause of death, illness and healthcare costs worldwide, affecting about 210 million people and a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. By 2030, COPD will be the third largest killer in the world.[4] Reducing the number of exacerbations experienced by patients is still a major unmet need in COPD and figures show that up to half of exacerbations are not reported by patients.[5] COPD exacerbations are the most important determinants of health status in COPD[5] and are important targets for therapies both from the point of view of treating the event and prevention. Notes to editors: About COPD A copy of the new expert Report and COPD backgrounder are available upon request. About the new expert Report on COPD authors The expert Report on COPD brings together key stakeholders within respiratory care:
- Dr Ondrej Rybnicek, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association (EFA) - Dr Stephen Rennard, Larson Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska - Prof Andrew McIvor, Professor of Medicine, McMaster University, Canada - Dr Alan Kaplan, Chairperson, Respiratory Medicine Special Interest Focus Group, College of Family Physicians of Canada - Prof Wisia Wedzicha, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Centre for Respiratory Medicine, University College London - Prof Robert Horne, Professor of Behavioural Medicine, UCL School of Pharmacy, Head of the Department of Practice and Policy, and Director of the Centre for Behavioural Medicine - The European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations (EFA), a European network of allergy, asthma and COPD patient organisations. EFA serves the interests of patients by providing information, education, peer contact and financial support. http://www.efanet.org/ About Roflumilast Roflumilast is the first anti-inflammatory treatment developed to target COPDspecific inflammation with a novel mode of action. Its active component, roflumilast, is a potent and selective inhibitor of the PDE4 enzyme.[6] Four large randomised placebo controlled trials have shown that roflumilast significantly reduces exacerbations and improves lung function when added to long acting bronchodilators.[7,8,9] Roflumilast is indicated in the EU for the maintenance treatment of severe COPD (FEV1 post-bronchodilator less than 50% predicted) associated with chronic bronchitis in adult patients with a history of frequent exacerbations as an addon to bronchodilator treatment.[10] Clinical COPD trials involved more than 12,000 patients. Roflumilast was generally well tolerated. The most commonly reported adverse reactions were diarrhoea (5.9%), weight decreased (3.4%), nausea (2.9%), abdominal pain (1.9%) and headache (1.7%). The majority of these adverse reactions were mild or moderate. These adverse reactions mainly occurred within the first weeks of therapy and mostly resolved on continued treatment.[10] About Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH headquartered in Zurich, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited located in Osaka, Japan. Takeda is a research-based global company with its main focus on pharmaceuticals. As the largest pharmaceutical company in Japan and one of the global leaders of the industry, Takeda is committed to strive towards better health for patients worldwide through leading innovation in medicine. Additional information about Takeda is available through its corporate website, http://www.takeda.com. References 1. Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management and Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2011. http://www.goldcopd.org (accessed July 2012). 2. Bateman ED, Rabe KF, Calverley PM, et al. Roflumilast with long-acting beta 2-agonists for COPD: influence of exacerbation history, Eur Respir J 2011;38:553-560.
3. Fabbri LM, et al. Effects of roflumilast in highly symptomatic COPD patients [abstract]. In: European Respiratory Society's 22nd Annual Congress; 2012 Sept 1-5; Vienna, Austria: ERS; 2012. Abstract P742. 4. World Health Organization. COPD. Fact Sheet No 315. 2008. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs315/en/index.html (accessed June 2012) 5. Seemungal TAR, Donaldson GC, Paul EA,Bestall JC, Jeffries DJ, Wedzicha JA. Effect of exacerbation on quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1998;157:1418-1422 6. Hatzelmann A, et al. The preclinical pharmacology of roflumilast - a selective, oral phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor in development for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Pulm Pharm Ther 2010;23:235-256. 7. Calverley PMA, et al. Roflumilast in symptomatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: two randomised clinical trials. Lancet 2009; 374: 685-94. 8. Fabbri LM, et al. Roflumilast in moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease treated with long-acting bronchodilators: two randomised clinical trials. Lancet 2009;374:695-703. 9. Rabe KF. Update on roflumilast, a phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Br J Pharm 2011;163:53-67. 10. EU Summary of Product Characteristics, Daxas(R), May 2011 (available at http://www.ema.europa.eu) This press release has been issued by Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH, Thurgauerstrasse 130, CH-8152 Glattpark-Opfikon (Zurich), Switzerland Source: Takeda Pharmaceuticals International GmbH