Effects of nintedanib on disease progression and safety in Japanese patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases : Further subset analysis from the whole INBUILD trial

Background: A previous subgroup analysis of data from the INBUILD trial showed that nintedanib reduced the annual rate of decline in forced vital capacity (FVC) in Japanese patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases (PF-ILDs). The safety profile of nintedanib over 52 weeks in Japanese patients was similar to that of the overall population.
Methods: Using data from 108 Japanese patients with PF-ILDs who had received at least 1 dose of study medication in the INBUILD trial, we evaluated the effect of nintedanib on disease progression and assessed the safety profile over the whole trial period (i.e., a longer duration than the prior analysis) compared with placebo. ILD progression was defined as an absolute decline in FVC ≥10% predicted vs baseline.
Results: Over the whole trial, in Japanese patients with PF-ILDs, nintedanib numerically lowered the risk of progression of ILD or death (hazard ratio [HR], 0.66; 95% confidence intervals [CI]: 0.37, 1.16), acute exacerbation of ILD or death (HR, 0.28; 95% CI: 0.09, 0.83), and death (HR, 0.41; 95% CI: 0.11, 1.51). The most common adverse event over the whole trial in nintedanib-treated Japanese patients was diarrhea, which was manageable for most patients by dose reduction and interruption. The safety profile of nintedanib in this longer duration analysis was consistent with that previously reported.
Conclusions: In this analysis of data from Japanese patients with PF-ILDs, nintedanib nominally reduced the risk of clinically meaningful outcomes reflecting disease progression, including death, over the whole trial, and no new safety concerns were observed.

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