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  15th International Workshop on
Co-morbidities and
Adverse Drug Reactions in HIV
Brussels, Belgium Oct 15-17 2013
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CHANGES IN BONE TURNOVER MARKERS AND ASSOCIATION WITH DECREASED TOTAL BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN TREATMENT-NAIVE SUBJECTS TAKING LOPINAVIR/RITONAVIR (LPV/r) COMBINED WITH RALTEGRAVIR (RAL) OR TENOFOVIR/EMTRICITABINE (TDF/FTC)
 
 
  Reported by Jules Levin
 
Todd Brown1, Linda Fredrick2, David Warren2, Lim Kai Toh2, Boris Renjifo2, Roger Trinh2, Roula Qaqish2 1: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2: AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL, USA 15th International Workshop on Co-morbidities and Adverse Drug Reactions in HIV Brussels, Belgium· 16.10.2013
 

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As we have just heard,
* Fragility fractures are a major source of morbidity and mortality in the general elderly population and low bone mineral density (BMD) is a major risk factor for fracture1
*In multiple observational cohorts, the incidence of fragility fractures is higher than expected in HIV-infected populations and the prevalence of osteoporosis is several fold higher in HIV-infected persons compared to HIV-uninfected controls2
*The etiology of osteoporosis in HIV-infected populations is multifactorial with contributions from certain antiretroviral therapies (ART), behaviors and conditions known to impact BMD (eg. smoking and hypogonadism), and perhaps chronic HIV infection

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In the 2 years after ART initiation, BMD decreases by 2-6%, regardless of the ART regimen used1
· Similar to the 2-year decline in BMD among women age 50-59 years in the general population1
· Associated with rapid increases in bone turnover markers, including markers of bone resorption (eg. CTx) and markers of bone formation (eg. OC, P1NP)3,4
· Markers of bone resorption increase earlier and to a greater extent than markers of bone formation, creating a "catabolic window"4
Some specific ART agents have independent effects on BMD with ART initiation · Tenofovir DF (TDF) has been associated with independent decreases in BMD with ART initiation and greater increases in bone turnover markers3,4 It is unclear whether early changes in bone turnover markers predict bone loss following ART initiation in treatment-naIve patients
· In the RADAR study, increases in bone turnover markers at 16 weeks were associated with decreases in total BMD (tBMD) at 48 weeks in HIV+, ART-naIve persons initiating TDF/FTC/DRV/r or TDF/FTC/RAL5
 
The analysis that I'm going to present uses data from the PROGRESS study, which were presented at this meeting 2 years ago in Rome and subsequently published. In this study, ART-naIve subjects randomized to LPV/r + TDF/FTC had greater loss in BMD compared to those randomized to LPV/r+ RAL . It's interesting to note that this is one of the only studies in the literature looking at bone with ART initiation that has not shown a decrease in BMD in one of its arms.

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We used whole body DXA scans to assess tBMD
· Only subjects with scans at baseline and Week 96 were included
· Proportion of subjects with ≥5% decrease from baseline in tBMD at Week 96 was compared between treatment groups Bone turnover markers were measured from frozen samples at baseline, Week 4, 16, 48, and 96:
We looked at CTx as a marker of bone resoprtion and osteocalcin, P1NP, and bone specific alkaline phosphatase as a marker of bone resorption and we examined the absolute changes in these markers by treatment arm over the 96 weeks.
 
We then used multivariable logistic regression to test whether early changes in bone turnover markers and their baseline levels were associated with bone loss at 96 weeks.
 

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Here's the flow diagram for this analysis: 78 from the raltegravir arm and 82 from the tenofovir arm were included in this analysis In the LPV/r+RAL arm, of the 101 who were randomized and received at least one dose, 82 completed the study, and 78 had both a baseline and 96 week DXA In the tenofovir arm, 105 reveived a dose, 90 completed the study, and 82 had DXAs at both timepoints.
 
The study population was young white males with a normal BMI

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Here are box plots of the bone turnover markers at each timepoint by treatment arm. The red dotted lines show the upper and lower bounds of the normal range. As you can see the osteocalcin levels start in the low end of the normal range and then increase quite bit in both arms. The CTX levels start in the mid regions of the normal range and then increase. In contrast, BSAP levels start low and stay low without much change, whereas P1NP starts towards the top of the normal range and stays relatively flat. You can see the changes by arm more clearly on the next slide.

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*, **, *** Significant mean change from baseline within a treatment group at P<0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 level, respectively, by one-way ANOVA. ,, Significant difference in mean change from baseline between treatment groups at P<0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 level, respectively, by one-way ANOVA.
 
This slide shows the absolute changes in both arms over the 96 weeks. Here, you see that osteocalcin increases in both arms, reaching it's peak at 48 weeks, with larger increases in the tenovir/FTC arm. CTX shows a similar pattern but the differences between the arms was even greater.
Interestingly, BSAP and P1NP stayed relatively flat in both arms
 

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*, **, *** Significant mean change from baseline within a treatment group at P<0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 level, respectively, by one-way ANOVA.
,, Significant difference in mean change from baseline between treatment groups at P<0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 level, respectively, by one-way ANOVA.
 
This slide shows the proportion of subjects in each arm who had a 5% bone loss at 96 weeks. 16 of the 82 subjects or almost 20% in the tenofovir FTC had this degree of bone loss compared to about 4% in the raltegravir arm

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Here's is the forest plot showing the logistic regression model for 5% or more bone loss over the 96 weeks. We locked the demographic variables into the model and included those variables with a p value of < 0.15 . You see that younger age, male sex were protective against this degree of bone loss, whereas white race and baseline CD4 cell count were associated with bone loss.
 
The pattern of results for the bone markers and their association with bone loss is interesting. Higher baseline levels of the bone resorption marker CTX and greater changes over 4 weeks were both associated with bone loss at 96 weeks. In contrast, greater increases at 4 weeks in the bone formation marker P1NP, OC, bone specific alkaline phosphatase were generally protective against bone loss, although only the change in P1NP was statistically significant.
 
By week 16 however, larger changes in these bone formation markers were positviely associated with bone loss, suggesting that at this point these markers are more representative of overall bone turnover, rather than bone formation per se.
 
This analysis excludes the effect for raltegravir.
 
Age <40 yrs (vs. ≥40 years), Male (vs. female), White race (vs. non-white race), Hispanic ethnicity (vs. non-Hispanic ethnicity), Alcohol: moderate or heavy drinker/ex-drinker vs. light drinker/ex-drinker or non-drinker, Tobacco: user/ex-user vs. never used, Hepatitis C+ (vs. hepatitis C-), HIV-1 RNA ≥100,000 copies/mL, CD4+ T-cell count <200 cells/mm3, HOMA-IR, BMI (kg/m2), BMD (g/cm2), BL Type I C-terminus telopeptide CTX (per 0.1 ng/mL), BL Procollagen type I propeptide P1NP (ng/mL), BL Osteocalcin OC (ng/mL), BL Bone specific alkaline phosphatase BSAP (ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK4 Type I C-terminus telopeptide CTX (per 0.1 ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK4 Procollagen type I propeptide P1NP (ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK4 Osteocalcin OC (ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK4 Bone specific alkaline phosphatase BSAP (ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK16 Type I C-terminus telopeptide CTX (per 0.1 ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK16 Procollagen type I propeptide P1NP (ng/mL), Absolute change from baseline to WK16 Osteocalcin OC (ng/mL), and Absolute change from baseline to WK16 Bone specific alkaline phosphatase BSAP (ng/mL) were included in a multivariable logistic regression analysis. Those that were significant at the 0.15 level in this analysis were then included in a final multivariable analysis along with the factors of age<40 years, male gender, white race, and Hispanic ethnicity.
 
Baseline factors independently associated (P<0.05) with reduced incidence of a ≥5% decrease from baseline in total BMD at Week 96 were age <40 years, male gender, and greater absolute change from BL to Wk4 in P1NP. White race, baseline CD4+ T-cell count <200 cells/mm3, higher baseline CTX, and greater absolute change from BL to Wk4 in CTX and from baseline to Wk16 in P1NP and OC were independently associated with increased incidence of a ≥5% decrease from baseline in total BMD at Week 96.

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We then repeated the model adding in the treatment effect. What we see is that the treatment effect, which was highly statistically significant in the pervious slide, is no longer statistically significant. This suggests that the differences in the treatment regimens on bone loss can largely be explained by the differences in the changes in markers of bone turnover. The point estimates for the effects of the markers remained unchanged.
 
"The baseline factors independently associated (P<0.05) with reduced incidence of a ≥5% decrease from baseline in total BMD at Week 96 were male gender and age <40 yrs. White race, baseline CD4+ T-cell count <200 cells/mm3, higher baseline CTX, and greater absolute change from BL to Wk4 in CTX and from baseline to Wk16 in P1NP were independently associated with increased incidence of a ≥5% decrease from baseline in total BMD at Week 96."

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