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Identification of pain categories associated with change in pain in patients receiving placebo: data from two phase 3 randomized clinical trials in symptomatic knee osteoarthritis

Authors :
Anne-Christine Bay-Jensen
Morten A. Karsdal
Marc C. Hochberg
Ivo Valter
Jeppe Ragnar Andersen
Bente Juel Riis
Inger Byrjalsen
Claus Christiansen
Asger Reinstrup Bihlet
Source :
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Vol 19, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.

Abstract

Pain is the principal clinical symptom of osteoarthritis (OA), and development of safe and effective analgesics for OA pain is needed. Drug development of new analgesics for OA pain is impaired by substantial change in pain in patients receiving placebo, and more data describing clinical characteristics and pain categories particularly associated with this phenomenon is needed. The purpose of this post-hoc analysis was to investigate clinical characteristics and pain categories and their association with radiographic progression and placebo pain reduction (PPR) in OA patients as measured the Western Ontario and McMasters Arthritis (WOMAC). Pooled data from the placebo groups of two phase III randomized clinical trials in patients with knee OA followed for 2 years were analyzed. Differences between individual sub-scores and pain categories of weight-bearing and non-weight bearing pain over time were assessed. Selected patient baseline characteristics were assessed for association with PPR. Association between pain categories and radiographic progression was analyzed. The reduction of pain in placebo-treated patients was significantly higher in the composite of questions related to weight-bearing pain compared to non-weight-bearing pain of the target knee. Baseline BMI, age and JSW were not associated with pain change. Pain reduction was higher in the Target knee, compared to the Non-Target knee at all corresponding time-points. A very weak correlation was found between weight-bearing pain and progression in the non-target knee. These results indicate that the reduction in pain in patients treated with placebo is significantly different between pain categories, as weight-bearing pain was significantly more reduced compared to non-weight-bearing pain. Further research in pain categories in OA is warranted. NCT00486434 (trial 1) and NCT00704847 (trial 2)

Details

ISSN :
14712474 and 00486434
Volume :
19
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....56207d6e7139dc231ec3b70d7e23ec36
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-018-1938-5