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    Porsbjerg, Celeste M; Townend, John; Bergeron, Celine; Christoff, George C; Katsoulotos, Gregory P; Larenas-Linnemann, Désirée; Tran, Trung N; Al-Lehebi, Riyad; Bosnic-Anticevich, Sinthia Z; Busby, John; Hew, Mark; Kostikas, Konstantinos; Papadopoulos, Nikolaos G; Pfeffer, Paul E; Popov, Todor A; Rhee, Chin Kook; Sadatsafavi, Mohsen; Tsai, Ming-Ju; Ulrik, Charlotte Suppli; Al-Ahmad, Mona; Altraja, Alan; Beastall, Aaron; Bulathsinhala, Lakmini; Carter, Victoria; Cosio, Borja G; Fletton, Kirsty; Hansen, Susanne; Heaney, Liam G; Hubbard, Richard B; Kuna, Piotr; Murray, Ruth B; Nagano, Tatsuya; Pini, Laura; Cano Rosales, Diana Jimena; Schleich, Florence; Wechsler, Michael E; Amaral, Rita; Bourdin, Arnaud; Brusselle, Guy G; Chen, Wenjia; Chung, Li Ping; Denton, Eve; Fonseca, Joao A; Hoyte, Flavia; Jackson, David J; Katial, Rohit; Kirenga, Bruce J; Koh, Mariko Siyue; Ławkiedraj, Agnieszka; Lehtimäki, Lauri; Liew, Mei Fong; Mahboub, Bassam; Martin, Neil; Menzies-Gow, Andrew N; Pang, Pee Hwee; Papaioannou, Andriana I; Patel, Pujan H; Perez-De-Llano, Luis; Peters, Matthew J; Ricciardi, Luisa; Rodríguez-Cáceres, Bellanid; Solarte, Ivan; Tay, Tunn Ren; Torres-Duque, Carlos A; Wang, Eileen; Zappa, Martina; Abisheganaden, John; Assing, Karin Dahl; Costello, Richard W; Gibson, Peter G; Heffler, Enrico; Máspero, Jorge; Nicola, Stefania; Perng Steve, Diahn-Warng; Puggioni, Francesca; Salvi, Sundeep; Sheu, Chau-Chyun; Sirena, Concetta; Taillé, Camille; Tan, Tze Lee; Bjermer, Leif; Canonica, Giorgio Walter; Iwanaga, Takashi; Jiménez-Maldonado, Libardo; Taube, Christian; Brussino, Luisa; Price, David B

    Frontiers in immunology, 2024, Volume: 15
    Journal Article

    To date, studies investigating the association between pre-biologic biomarker levels and post-biologic outcomes have been limited to single biomarkers and assessment of biologic efficacy from structured clinical trials. To elucidate the associations of pre-biologic individual biomarker levels or their combinations with pre-to-post biologic changes in asthma outcomes in real-life. This was a registry-based, cohort study using data from 23 countries, which shared data with the International Severe Asthma Registry (May 2017-February 2023). The investigated biomarkers (highest pre-biologic levels) were immunoglobulin E (IgE), blood eosinophil count (BEC) and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO). Pre- to approximately 12-month post-biologic change for each of three asthma outcome domains (i.e. exacerbation rate, symptom control and lung function), and the association of this change with pre-biologic biomarkers was investigated for individual and combined biomarkers. Overall, 3751 patients initiated biologics and were included in the analysis. No association was found between pre-biologic BEC and pre-to-post biologic change in exacerbation rate for any biologic class. However, higher pre-biologic BEC and FeNO were both associated with greater post-biologic improvement in FEV for both anti-IgE and anti-IL5/5R, with a trend for anti-IL4Rα. Mean FEV improved by 27-178 mL post-anti-IgE as pre-biologic BEC increased (250 to 1000 cells/µL), and by 43-216 mL and 129-250 mL post-anti-IL5/5R and -anti-IL4Rα, respectively along the same BEC gradient. Corresponding improvements along a FeNO gradient (25-100 ppb) were 41-274 mL, 69-207 mL and 148-224 mL for anti-IgE, anti-IL5/5R, and anti-IL4Rα, respectively. Higher baseline BEC was also associated with lower probability of uncontrolled asthma (OR 0.392; p=0.001) post-biologic for anti-IL5/5R. Pre-biologic IgE was a poor predictor of subsequent pre-to-post-biologic change for all outcomes assessed for all biologics. The combination of BEC + FeNO marginally improved the prediction of post-biologic FEV increase (adjusted R : 0.751), compared to BEC (adjusted R : 0.747) or FeNO alone (adjusted R : 0.743) (p=0.005 and <0.001, respectively); however, this prediction was not improved by the addition of IgE. The ability of higher baseline BEC, FeNO and their combination to predict biologic-associated lung function improvement may encourage earlier intervention in patients with impaired lung function or at risk of accelerated lung function decline.