The effect of age when initiating anti-seizure medication therapy on fragility fracture risk for children with epilepsy.

Bone
Daniel G WhitneyKarl J Jepsen

Abstract

Anti-seizure medication (ASM) is necessary to manage epilepsy and often prescribed to children and adolescents, but can lead to iatrogenic effects, including bone fragility by altering bone metabolism. Disrupting bone metabolism during crucial developmental stages could have a lasting adverse effect on bone health. Therefore, the objective of this propensity score-matched, observational cohort study was to determine if age when initiating ASM therapy across developmental stages (from pre- to post-puberty) for individuals with epilepsy was associated with an increased risk of fragility fracture. Data from 01/01/2011 to 12/31/2018 were extracted from Optum Clinformatics® Data Mart. Children aged 4-21 years at baseline with at least 5 years of continuous health plan enrollment were included to allow for a 1-year baseline and 4-years of follow-up. The primary group of interest included new ASM users (i.e., treatment naïve) with epilepsy. The comparison group, no ASM users without epilepsy, was matched 1:14 to new ASM users with epilepsy for demographics and baseline fracture. To provide a proxy for developmental stages, age was categorized as 4-6 (pre-puberty), 7-10 (early puberty), 11-13 (mid-puberty), 14-17 (late puberty), and 18...Continue Reading

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