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The effects of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) adherence on survival in patients undergoing revascularization and the determinants of DAPT adherence

Abstract

Background

The prevalence and burden of coronary heart disease (CHD) has increased substantially in India, accompanied with increasing need for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). Although a large government-funded insurance scheme in Maharashtra, India covered the cost of PCI for low-income patients, the high cost of post-PCI treatment, especially Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT), still caused many patients to prematurely discontinue the secondary prevention. Our study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of DAPT adherence on all-cause mortality among post-PCI patients and explore the potential determinants of DAPT adherence in India.

Method

We collected clinical data of 4,595 patients undergoing PCI in 110 participating medical centers in Maharashtra, India from 2012 to 2015 by electronic medical records. We surveyed 2527 adult patients who were under the insurance scheme by telephone interview, usually between 6 to 12 months after their revascularization. Patients reporting DAPT continuation in the telephone survey were categorized as DAPT adherence. The outcome of the interest was all-cause mortality within 1 year after the index procedure. Multivariate Cox proportional hazard (PH) model with adjustment of potential confounders and standardization were used to explore the effects of DAPT adherence on all-cause mortality. We further used a multivariate logistic model to investigate the potential determinants of DAPT adherence.

Results

Out of the 2527 patients interviewed, 2064 patients were included in the analysis, of whom 470 (22.8%) discontinued DAPT prematurely within a year. After adjustment for baseline confounders, DAPT adherence was associated with lower one-year all-cause mortality compared to premature discontinuation (less than 6-month), with an adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of 0.52 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = (0.36, 0.67)). We also found younger patients (OR per year was 0.99 (0.97, 1.00)) and male (vs. female, OR of 1.30 (0.99, 1.70)) had higher adherence to DAPT at one year as did patients taking antihypertensive medications (vs. non medication, OR of 1.57 (1.25, 1.95)).

Conclusion

These findings suggest the protective effects of DAPT adherence on 1-year mortality among post-PCI patients in a low-income setting and indicate younger age, male sex and use of other preventive treatments were predictors of higher DAPT adherence.

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Background

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in India. According to Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2019, the estimated number of deaths caused by CVD was 2.57 million, constituting 27.4% of all-cause mortality and resulting in 13.9% of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) lost in India [1]. As one of the main cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart disease (CHD) has increasing prevalence and mortality in both urban and rural population due to aging and epidemics of diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia [2, 3]. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with implantation of bare-metal stents (BMSs) or drug-eluting stents (DESs) is an effective treatment for CHD patients. Compared with conventional medical management, PCI reduces risk of death, cardiac death, and myocardial infraction (MI) in patients with unstable coronary artery disease, although the benefit over medical therapy in stable coronary artery disease (SCAD) is still uncertain [4]. To date, there have been several international guidelines [5, 6], providing comprehensive guidance for revascularization in CHD patients. According to these guideline, patients undergoing PCI generally should receive Dual Antiplatelet Therapy (DAPT), a combination of aspirin and oral antiplatelet agents for at least 6 months to decrease the risk of death and recurrent events [6].

Coronary interventions in India continue to increase year by year [7]. In 2012, to make the health services more available for the poor, the government of Maharashtra launched a government-funded insurance scheme, covering 971 medical procedures including PCI under designated hospitals [8, 9]. Under the insurance scheme, the number of annual coronary interventions doubled from 2013 to 2017 in Maharashtra, India [10]. However, the insurance scheme does not cover post-PCI treatment including DAPT, so patients from lower socioeconomic backgrounds may discontinue treatment prematurely due to high cost or low health literacy [11]. The ‘real-life’ effectiveness of DAPT on patients’ all-cause mortality could differ due to non-adherence in India, compared with previous populations examined in high- or middle-income settings [12,13,14].

Despite global consensus on the management of CHD, gaps in the adherence to DAPT as secondary prevention still exist in developing countries [15]. There were several studies describing the implementation of guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in India [16, 17], but few studies investigated the effects and predictors of DAPT adherence. To fill this gap, we examined the effect of DAPT adherence on all-cause mortality within one year after patients underwent PCI and separately explored the determinants of DAPT adherence in Maharashtra, India.

Methods

Study sites and population

This prospective study included 110 medical centers in each district of Maharashtra. Participating centers had adequate facilities to provide standardized cardiovascular care and patients covered under the government-funded insurance scheme were free to present to any of the participating centers to receive treatment [8, 9]. For this study, we used patients with CAD whose procedures conducted between 2012 and 2015 and followed them between August 2012 and November 2016. Eligible study participants were adult patients (aged 18 years and above) receiving PCI in one or more coronary arteries at a participating center under the government-funded insurance scheme. The choice of stent and post-PCI medications was at the discretion of the cardiologist. Patients who did not receive a stent during the index PCI and patients who died during hospitalization for the index procedure were excluded. We further excluded patients who had missing values in exposure, outcomes, and potential confounders.

Data collection

We used data from two sources: (1) complete electronic medical records of the treated patients and procedural details, maintained by the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Maharashtra; (2) telephone interviews with the patients usually conducted between 6 and 12 months after the index PCI by the research interviewers to collect information on adherence to DAPT, survival and other covariates. If people died before 6 months after PCI, the next of the kin would be interviewed using the same questionnaire (Additional file 1: Material S1). Prior to the start of the study, the research coordinators responsible for data collection participated in a training session where the standardized forms for data collection and manual of operations were reviewed to ensure consistency in data collection practices. Permission to obtain only verbal informed consent over the telephone (rather than written consent) was granted by the Ethics Committee.

Definitions

We assumed all the patients started to use DAPT directly after PCI as the guidelines recommend. Patients reporting current DAPT use (both antiplatelet and aspirin use) in the telephone survey were categorized as DAPT adherence. Since most interviews were conducted between 6 to 12 months after PCI, the adherence duration was supposed to be more than 6 months. For patients who died before 6 months, we categorized them as adherence if they used DAPT when they were still alive. The outcome of the study was all-cause mortality within 1 year after the index procedure. The specific date of death was from the telephone survey reported by the next of the kin. Supplementary material 2 provides information on how the variables in our study were measured.

Statistical analysis

We first used appropriate statistics (t-test or X2-test) to compare patients’ demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics, socioeconomic characteristics, lifestyle, revascularization details, medicine use and self-reported drug availability by DAPT adherence and non-adherence.

Then, we used a Log-rank test to compare the survival difference between the DAPT adherent and non-adherent patients. We further used a multivariate Cox proportional hazard (PH) model to analyze the effects of DAPT adherence on one-year survival after PCI. We chose a set of potential confounders based on a-priori knowledge about common causes of adherence and mortality, including age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, eligible CAD type, status of tobacco use, education level, employment status, revascularization in Mumbai or not, sent location, stent type, year of PCI, total number of stents, total stent length. We tested the proportional hazard assumption using Schoenfeld residuals [18]. We then used the estimated coefficients, baseline hazard and the joint distribution of baseline confounders in the entire participants to estimate standardized Kaplan–Meier survivor curves by adherence status [19]. We also conducted subgroup analysis by age, sex, CAD type and antihypertensive treatment and test the effect modification using likelihood ratio test. For sensitivity analysis, we excluded patients who died before 6 months after procedure, then analyzed the effect of DAPT adherence to test the robustness of our study results.

Finally, A multivariate logistic regression model was used to explore the potential determinants of adherence to DAPT based on available information and the recommended analysis of factors reported to affect medicine adherence by American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) [20]. Potential determinants in the analysis included age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, eligible CAD type, status of tobacco use, education level, employment status, revascularization in Mumbai or not, year of PCI, drug availability, drug affordability and closeness to pharmacy. Statistical analysis was performed using the R studio version 1.4.

Results

Out of 4595 patients (or family members in case of deceased patients) interviewed between August 2012 and November 2016, 2527 adult patients underwent PCI under the insurance scheme and had interview after their PCI. We further excluded 454 patients who had missing values in exposure, time of death, and potential confounders, and 9 patients who died at the hospital after the index PCI (Fig. 1). Of the 2,064 patients included in final analysis, 470 (22.8%) discontinued DAPT prematurely within a year.

Fig. 1
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Selection process for participants based on inclusion and exclusion criteria

Mean age was 56.71 years old (SD = 10.77) and 75.6% of eligible patients were men. As shown in Table 1, the DAPT adherent and non-adherent population were remarkably similar with minor differences in baseline characteristics. Specifically, the proportion of men in DAPT adherent group was higher than DAPT non-adherent group (76.5% vs. 72.3%), and the DAPT adherent group were slightly younger (56.38 years old (SD = 10.77) vs. 57.85 years old (SD = 10.72)). 91.2% of DAPT-adherent patients used Clopidogrel and Aspirin, 10.1% used Prasugrel and Aspirin, and 1.3% used Ticlopidine and Aspirin. DAPT adherent group were more likely to take antihypertensive medications (65.1% vs. 56.2%). DAPT-adherent patients were more likely to report that the prescribed drugs are easily available at the pharmacy (73.8% vs. 70.2%), they were able to afford the medicine (33.8% vs. 29.8%) and they lived close to a pharmacy/dispensary (64.3% vs. 57.7%).

Table 1 Patient’s characteristics, PCI details separately by DAPT adherence and non-adherence (N = 2019)

We observed 116 deaths within 1 year of the index PCI procedure, of whom 91 died before 6 months after PCI. The crude death rate in DAPT adherent patients was 4.2% compared with 10.4% among DAPT non-adherent patients (P < 0.001 in log-rank test). Figure 2 showed the standardized cumulative rates of post-PCI mortality over the course of one year by DAPT adherence and non-adherence.

Fig. 2
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Standardized Kaplan Meier estimate of one-year all-cause mortality for DAPT adherence versus non-adherence

The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) for 1-year all-cause mortality of DAPT adherence was 0.52 with 95% Confidence Interval (CI) = (0.36, 0.76) (Table 2). The tests for Schoenfeld residuals of DAPT treatment and all covariates in the model were not statistically significant, so the assumptions of proportional hazards held.

Table 2 Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval for one-year all-cause mortality of DAPT adherence estimated from multivariate Cox proportional hazard model (N = 2019)

We found no significant interaction between age and CAD types and DAPT adherence, but the survival effects of DAPT adherence seemed stronger among female and patients not taking antihypertensive drug (Table 3). However, the number of events among patients with antihypertensive treatment was too small for a meaningful comparison of the survival benefit by antihypertensive treatment. In our sensitivity analysis (Table 4), after excluding patients who died before 6 months, DAPT adherence was found not associated with all-cause mortality (HR of 0.62 (0.27, 1.44)).

Table 3 Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval for one-year all-cause mortality of DAPT adherence in the subgroup analysis and test of effect modification
Table 4 Hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval for one-year all-cause mortality of DAPT adherence in sensitivity analysis

Among the potential determinants of adherence to DAPT examined in the model, only younger age (OR per year was 0.99 (0.97, 1.00)), male (vs. female, OR of 1.30 (0.99, 1.70)) and taking antihypertensive medication (vs. non medication, OR of 1.57 (1.25, 1.95)) were important determinants of higher adherence (Table 5).

Table 5 Association (odds ratios OR and 95% confidence intervals) between baseline characteristics and DAPT adherence at 6–12 months (N = 2064)

Discussion

Our results indicated the protective effects of DAPT adherence after PCI on one-year all-cause mortality among a low-income population in India. The US and European guidelines recommend DAPT after PCI for at least 6 months in stable coronary artery disease and for at least 12 months in ACS [5, 21]. In our study population, 86.0% of patients had either ACS or stable SCAD, but only 77.2% reported DAPT adherence after PCI. Even among the relatively higher DAPT adherence groups, the proportions of adherence were still below 80% (men: 78.2%, young patients: 79.3%, having antihypertensive treatment: 79.7%). We further examined potential determinants of DAPT adherence: in Indian settings, men, younger patients, and those taking antihypertension drug had higher DAPT adherence. However, we couldn’t find other determinants that affects DAPT adherence significantly.

DAPT is among the most intensively investigated treatment options in the field of cardiovascular medicine [21]. As secondary prevention, DAPT adherence plays an important role in improving individuals’ clinical outcomes and achieving cost-effectiveness of medical interventions [22, 23]. Our study findings are consistent with many previous observational studies that also indicated the survival benefits of longer-term DAPT adherence. For instance, based on the BIFURCAT registry, a study found that extended DAPT (> 12 months) was associated with a lower incidence of Major Adverse Cardiac Events (MACE) compared with intermediate-term DAPT (6–12 months) driven by a reduction of all-cause death in the acute coronary syndrome cohort [24]. A prior study also found that the four-year mortality for patients with coronary bifurcation lesion was significantly lower when accepting more than 12-month DAPT after PCI than accepting less than12-month DAPT [25]. Furthermore, the PARIS study found that patients who ceased DAPT due to brief interruption (for surgery) or disruption (non-compliance or because of bleeding) had significant higher hazard of MACE compared to people who remained on DAPT [26]. In subgroup analysis, we didn’t find significant difference in the protective effects of DAPT on survival by sex, which was same as the results of a sex-specific patient-level pooled-analysis of randomized trials [27].

The American College of Preventive Medicine has proposed 5 key groups of factors that affect adherence: (1) socioeconomic factors, (2) health care system–related factors, (3) medical condition– related factors, (4) therapy-related factors and (5) patient-related factors [20]. Our results on higher adherence among younger patients, males and those on antihypertensive drugs is consistent with previous investigations of adherence in similar populations [28, 29]. However, similar to other electronic medical record systems, we did not have access to data on several dimensions of adherence as proposed by ACPM, such as socioeconomic factors and patient-related factors such as health literacy, knowledge about DAPT and confidence in dealing with symptoms caused by DAPT [11]. Furthermore, we found only a weak association between self-reported measures of access to and affordability of healthcare and adherence. Therefore, further studies are needed to elucidate the determinants of DAPT adherence.

There are several strengths of our study. Firstly, responding to the increasing prevalence of CHD [30] and the emerging need for PCI [10], we examined the current status of DAPT adherence as secondary prevention and its effects on mortality in India using electronic medical records for the entire state of Maharashtra. Secondly, our findings contribute to the knowledge of potential determinants of DAPT adherence in real-world studies. Specifically, the study targeting Indian population helps address knowledge gap in resource-poor settings, as most previous studies were conducted in high-income populations, like the US and European countries [26, 28, 29]. However, our study has several limitations. Firstly, the self-reported DAPT adherence in telephone survey might be over-estimated and cause misclassification. If patients tended to report DAPT-adherence even when they didn’t, the non‐differential misclassification of exposure would lead the results toward the null value of no association. Secondly, we did not have information on the exact dose and duration of DAPT use by individuals, therefore we had to rely on self-reported DAPT use from the telephone survey, rather than more accurate measurement tools [31]. Thirdly, drug availability and affordability were self-reported variables measured by simple questions, and their validity was untested. In addition, we didn’t have information on potential socioeconomic confounders, such as income, work type, and health literacy as well as information on kidney function, and drug safety, such as bleeding. Due to potentially unadjusted confounding, our findings should be interpreted cautiously.

Our results have important implications for clinical practice and public health research. To improve post-PCI survival, more efforts should be taken to improve patients’ DAPT adherence, while taking individual’s clinical presentation and bleeding risk into accounts [32]. Additionally, future studies including qualitative and mixed methods studies are required to provide more evidence on the determinants of DAPT adherence, especially regarding socioeconomic and health system-related factors.

Conclusion

To conclude, using prospective data from electronic medical records and telephone interview of patients undergoing PCI, we found that DAPT adherence was significantly associated with lower risk of one-year all-cause mortality. Additionally, younger patients, men, and those on antihypertensive treatment had higher DAPT adherence. Future studies, including qualitative and mixed methods studies should be conducted to further investigate the determinants of adherence in this population.

Availability of data and materials

The questionnaire used for data collection can be found in supplementary material. Since the dataset used by the study includes patients’ identities and private information, it is only available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Abbreviations

CVD:

Cardiovascular disease

CHD:

Coronary heart disease

ACS:

Acute coronary syndrome

SCAD:

Stable coronary artery disease

MI:

Myocardial infraction

GBD:

Global Burden of Disease

DALYs:

Disability-adjusted life years

PCI:

Percutaneous coronary intervention

BMSs:

Bare-metal stents

DESs:

Drug-eluting stents

DAPT:

Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

MACE:

Major Adverse Cardiac Events

ACPM:

American College of Preventive Medicine

LAD:

Left anterior descending artery

LCA:

Left circumflex artery

RCA:

Right coronary artery

PH:

Proportional hazard

HR:

Hazard ratio

CI:

Confidence interval

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We would like to thank the data collection teams and study participants who made this study possible.

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The data collection was funded by the government of Maharashtra, India. The funder of the study sponsor had no role whatsoever in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. The funding was provided by Ministry of Health and Welfare (Grand No. F.No.T.11012/03/2019-HR/E-Office-3209581)

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Zhang, S., Chourase, M., Sharma, N. et al. The effects of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) adherence on survival in patients undergoing revascularization and the determinants of DAPT adherence. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 22, 238 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12872-022-02677-8

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