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Abstract
Background
Extraintestinal manifestations (EIM) contribute significantly to the burden of disease in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Pain is a leading symptom in IBD and could be seen as an EIM itself. Treatment of IBD associated pain is challenging and insufficiently studied. A better knowledge on the association of pain and IBD specific treatment is warranted to improve the management of IBD patients.
Methods
All patients of the Swiss IBD Cohort Study (SIBDCS) (n = 2152) received a questionnaire regarding pain localization, pain character, and the use of IBD specific medication.
Results
1263 completed questionnaires were received. Twenty-one out of 184 patients (10%) receiving anti-TNF treatment compared to 142 out of 678 patients (21%) not receiving anti-TNF medication reported elbow pain (p = 0.002) while 28 out of 198 patients (14%) receiving steroid treatment significantly more often reported elbow pain compared to 59 from 696 patients (8%) not receiving steroids (p = 0.021). Furthermore, we found significantly more female patients under anti-TNF treatment to report knee/ lower leg pain and ankle/ foot pain compared to their male counterparts (36% vs. 20% and 22% vs. 10%, respectively, p = 0.015 for both comparisons). The frequency of knee, lower leg, ankle and foot pain was especially low in male patients under anti-TNF treatment, indicating a high benefit of male patients from anti-TNF therapy regarding EIM.
Citation: Bon L, Scharl S, Vavricka S, Rogler G, Fournier N, Pittet V, et al. (2019) Association of IBD specific treatment and prevalence of pain in the Swiss IBD cohort study. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0215738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215738
Editor: Stefanos Bonovas, Humanitas University, ITALY
Received: September 17, 2018; Accepted: April 8, 2019; Published: April 25, 2019
Copyright: © 2019 Bon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: Data may be made available upon request due to ethical restrictions imposed by the Swiss IBD cohort study group which collected this data. Interested researchers may request access to the collected data from this study in the same manner as the authors did. Data is available upon ethical approval and a request to the Head of the cohort, Dr. Phil Gerhard Rogler, at gerhard.rogler@usz.ch. Data access requests may also be made to the Swiss IBD Cohort at sibdcs-submission@chuv.ch or http://ibdcohort.ch/index.php/informationen-fuer-forscher.html.
Funding: This research was supported by a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (http://www.snf.ch/de/Seiten/default.aspx) to GR for the Swiss IBD Cohort (Grant No. 3347CO-108792). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Introduction
Pain is a common symptom in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) [1, 2]. In a recent study we showed that the vast majority of patients (71%) within the Swiss IBD Cohort Study experienced pain during their disease course and that for 52% of the patients pain was a longstanding problem [3]. Abdominal pain can be a direct or indirect consequence of intestinal inflammation; however, extraintestinal manifestations (EIM) of IBD can also cause pain and pain in itself can be seen as an EIM [4–6]. The most common EIM of IBD are arthropathies [5, 7–17]. Also, in our former study we could show that pain has a substantial impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of IBD patients, as the general quality of life was significantly lower in patients suffering from pain compared to those without pain [3]. Such a relationship has also been described in other chronic diseases [18–21].
Treatment of both, IBD and IBD associated pain is challenging. The mainstay of IBD treatment includes systemic immunosuppressive medications, such as corticosteroids, anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibodies or immunomodulators. Furthermore, the management of an acute flare differs from the strategies for maintenance of remission [22, 23]. Moreover, presence of EIM will also influence the choice of a treatment regime. For instance, anti-TNF therapy is known to be very effective regarding gut inflammation as well as arthropathies/ arthritis.
Furthermore, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can very effectively mediate pain relieve due to their analgetic and also anti-inflammatory effects. However, due to the risk of disease exacerbation and induction of flares their use in IBD is limited [24–30].
Here, we used the well-characterized patient collective of the Swiss IBD Cohort Study (SIBDCS) to study the association of pain and IBD treatment with a focus on anti-TNF treatment.
Methods
Ethics consideration
Ethics approval was obtained from the regional Swiss Ethics Committees in which cohort participants were enrolled (Commission d’éthique du Canton de Vaud, Lausanne, Switzerland/Protocol no. 33/06). Written, informed consent was obtained from each patient included in the study. The study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki as reflected in a priori approval by the institution's human research committee.
Study design
Patients of the nationwide SIBDCS have been prospectively included since 2006 with a yearly follow-up. The cohort goals und methodology of SIBDC have been described elsewhere[31].
A questionnaire addressing various aspects of pain including pain duration localization and frequency was mailed to 2152 SIBDC patients, representing the entire cohort. The questionnaire also inquired about the use of pain specific medication in detail. Our questionnaire contained several questions from a validated German pain questionnaire [32]. The questionnaire was used in a German and in a French version. Further details of the questionnaires including the fully originally used French and German versions are described elsewhere [3]. Basic epidemiological and clinical data including the use of IBD specific therapy was retrieved from the SIBDCS databases. All data are stored in Microsoft Access (Microsoft Corporation) databases.
Statistical analysis
Descriptive statistical analyses were performed: Categorical variables were summarized as frequencies and percentages, whereas quantitative variables as median and range. To assess differences in categorical data distribution between groups of different sizes, Fisher’s exact test was used.
The statistical analysis was performed using GraphPad Prism 7 for MacOS. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results
Patient’s characteristics
The patients’ characteristics shown in Table 1 have been described previously [3]. In brief: 1263 out of 2152 patients completed the questionnaires (response rate 59%). 599 out of 1263 patients were male (47%) and 664 female (53%). The median age was 47 years. Extraintestinal manifestations (EIM) of IBD were present in 699 patients (55%). The median IBD disease duration was 15 years (mean: 15 years, range: 0–57 years). The vast majority of patients (894/ 1263, 71%) reported the experience of pain in general during the course of the disease. Table 2 shows the frequency of IBD specific treatment.
Association between IBD specific treatment and pain localization
When comparing the use of IBD specific medication and ten different pain localizations, we found several significant differences. Regarding elbow pain, only 21 patients (10%) receiving anti-TNF treatment compared to 142 patients (21%) not receiving anti-TNF were affected (p = 0.002). Other pain localizations did not reveal significant differences regarding anti-TNF treatment (Table 3).
Comparing other IBD specific therapy and the different pain localization, we found patients not receiving steroid treatment significantly less often to be suffering from elbow pain compared to patients receiving steroids (8% vs. 14%; p = 0.021). For the evaluation of other pain localizations and other IBD specific therapy (5-ASA, calcineurin-inhibitors, immunomodulators) no significant differences were observed (S1–S5 Tables).
Association between IBD specific treatment and duration of pain
Duration of pain did not differ between patients on anti-TNF treatment versus those not on anti-TNF treatment (Table 4). The duration of pain was also not influenced by other IBD specific medications (Steroids, 5-ASA, Antibiotics, Calcineurin-inhibitors, Immunomudulators) also, no significant differences were observed (S6–S10 Tables).
Association between IBD specific treatment and frequency of pain
The frequency of pain in patients with and without anti-TNF treatment did not significantly differ (Table 5). When comparing the pain frequencies of patients taking other IBD specific medications (steroids, 5-ASA, antibiotics, calcineurin-inhibitors, immunomodulators), also no significant differences were observed (S11–S15 Tables).
Association between IBD specific treatment and pain character
Further, there was no association between the pain character and the use of IBD specific medication. 36 patients (20%) on anti-TNF treatment described their pain to be constant with slight fluctuations compared to 115 patients (19%) without anti-TNF treatment (p>0.999). Constant pain with strong fluctuations was reported by 15 patients (8%) using anti-TNF treatment and by 64 patients (11%) not receiving anti-TNF treatment (p = 0.331). 115 patients (61%) with TNF treatment and 349 (58%) without anti-TNF treatment experienced pain attacks with pain free intervals (p = 0.554). Pain attacks with constant pain were reported by 30 patients (16%) receiving anti-TNF treatment compared to 75 (12%) not receiving anti-TNF (p = 0.268). When comparing the pain character of patients receiving other IBD specific medication (steroids, 5-ASA, antibiotics, calcineurin-inhibitors, immunomodulators), no significant differences across treatment groups were seen (S16–S21 Tables).
Association between IBD specific treatment and duration of pain attacks
Moreover, the duration of pain attacks was not influenced by IBD specific medication (Table 6), neither with regards to anti-TNF nor other agents to treat IBD, including steroids, 5-ASA, Antibiotics, Calcineurin-Inhibitors, Immunmodulators (S22–S26 Tables).
Comparison of pain localization of male and female patients with and without anti-TNF therapy
From a total of 894 patients, a similar fraction of male and female patients (24% for both) received anti-TNF therapy (Fig 1).
When comparing the pain localizations of male and female patients receiving anti-TNF treatment significantly fewer male patients with anti-TNF treatment suffered from knee/ lower leg pain compared to female patients receiving anti-TNF therapy (20% vs. 36%; p = 0.015). Also, significantly fewer male patients receiving anti-TNF treatment reported ankle/ foot pain compared to female patients with anti-TNF treatment (10% vs. 22%; p = 0.015). For the other pain localizations, no differences regarding gender were seen (Table 7).
We did not observe any differences in pain localizations in patients with versus without anti-TNF-therapy, neither in male nor female patients (Tables 8 and 9).
Discussion
In our study population 5-aminosalycylicacid (5-ASA) (37%) was the most frequently used IBD specific medication, followed by immunomodulators (35%) and anti-TNF antibodies (24%). As for anti-TNF, Vavricka et al. showed that in more than 40% of the cases, this therapy regime is initiated to treat EIM rather than bowel inflammation and over 70% showed a clinical response of EIM to anti-TNF therapy [6]. Our study supports these findings: we could show that significantly less patients on anti-TNF reported elbow pain compared to patients not on anti-TNF. Of note, significantly more patients on steroid treatment reported elbow pain. Refrences to support these findings are lacking.
Regarding gender specific differences in treatment of EIM/ pain in IBD patients, data is not consistent. Concerning IBD treatment, Lopetusa et al. found no general influence of the gender on the therapy of ulcerative colitis (UC) with anti-TNF (infliximab) [33]. However, female patients with steroid-refractory UC and successive anti-TNF treatment showed an increased 1-year remission rate and a cumulative non-colectomy rate. In contradiction, Lopetusa et al. found a lower rate of response to treatment and of disease remission in female patients under TNF inhibitors with axial spondyloarthritis[34]. As for possible explanations, Nguyen et al. showed that the three biomarkers praealbumin, platelet factor 4 and S100A12 accurately predict the response of patients with rheumatoid arthritis to TNF inhibitors[35]. Further studies about a gender-specific correlation of these marker could reveal useful findings. In our study, we found that statistically significant less male patients with anti-TNF treatment reported knee/ lower leg and foot/ ankle pain compared to female patients with anti-TNF. This data may indicate that there is a gender difference regarding the effect of anti-TNF therapy for EIM.
One strength of our study is the size of the cohort with 1263 completed questionnaires. Together with our former study evaluating pain in the SIBDCS [3] it is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest evaluation of pain and the use of IBD specific therapy in IBD up to date.
However, our study also has limitations. Due to the study design and the lack of control regarding unreturned questionnaires, a reporting bias cannot be excluded. Patients who actually suffer from pain due to IBD therefore might be overrepresented compared to patients without pain, since the former might be more motivated to return the questionnaire. The patients not responding to the survey might have represented a different phenotype regarding our topic of interest. The existing data of the SIBDCS doesn’t include any information about pain, preventing us from compairing pain specific parameters between responders and non-responders. Furthermore, regarding the use of IBD specific therapy and pain localizations, we do not have information on the reason to initiate medical therapy (i.e. EIM vs. intestinal activity of IBD or both) and how high the prevalence of pain has been before treatment initiation. Our statistical evaluation of the data represents another limitation. We have performed a mostly derscriptive analysis of the dataset. To remain a high response rate and not no overstrain the goodwill of the patients, we intended to keep our questionnaire on a simplistic level. We further see the sizes of our subgroups as a potential limitation. We are aware that small subgroups may be linked to random positive findings. In comparison to other studies about pain in IBD, the subgroups examined here are not considerably small. Furthermore, we aimed to include as many pain localizations as possible to thoroughly analyse the distribution of pain. Additionally, our findings, particularly regarding Anti-TNF, match the clinical observations, depicting a genuine outcome.
In summary, we could show that the frequency of elbow pain was lower in patients treated with anti-TNF but higher under steroid treatment. There were no significant differences regarding the use IBD specific therapy and the character, duration and frequency of pain. Furthermore, our data point towards a higher treatment benefit of anti-TNF with regards to EIM in male patients which should be followed up in future studies.
Supporting information
S2 Table. Pain localization (5-aminosalicylic acid).
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S3 Table. Pain localization (Immunomodulators).
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S5 Table. Pain localization (Calcineurin-Inhibitors).
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S7 Table. Duration of pain (5-aminosalicylic acid).
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S9 Table. Duration of pain (Calcineurin-Inhibitors).
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S10 Table. Duration of pain (Immunomodulators).
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S12 Table. Frequency of pain (5-aminosalicylic acid).
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S14 Table. Frequency of pain (Calcineurin-Inhibitors).
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S15 Table. Frequency of pain (Immunomodulators).
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S18 Table. Pain character (5-aminosalicylic acid).
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S20 Table. Pain character (Calcineurin-Inhibitors).
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S22 Table. Duration of pain attacks (Steroids).
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S23 Table. Duration of pain attacks (5-aminosalicylic acid).
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S24 Table. Duration of pain attacks (Antibiotics).
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S25 Table. Duration of pain attacks (Calcineurin-Inhibitors).
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S26 Table. Duration of pain attacks (Immunomodulators).
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank all the patients for their collaboration and the members of the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study for their contribution.
Members of the SIBDCS study group: Claudia Anderegg; Peter Bauerfeind; Christoph Beglinger; Stefan Begré; Dominique Belli; José M. Bengoa; Luc Biedermann; Beat Bigler; Janek Binek; Mirjam Blattmann; Stephan Boehm; Jan Borovicka; Christian P. Braegger; Nora Brunner; Patrick Bühr; Bernard Burnand; Emanuel Burri; Sophie Buyse; Matthias Cremer; Dominique H. Criblez; Philippe de Saussure; Lukas Degen; Joakim Delarive; Christopher Doerig; Barbara Dora; Gian Dorta; Mara Egger; Tobias Ehmann; Ali El-Wafa; Matthias Engelmann; Jessica Ezri; Christian Felley; Markus Fliegner; Nicolas Fournier; Montserrat Fraga; Pascal Frei; Remus Frei; Michael Fried; Florian Froehlich; Christian Funk; Raoul Ivano Furlano; Suzanne Gallot-Lavallée; Martin Geyer; Marc Girardin; Delphine Golay; Tanja Grandinetti; Beat Gysi; Horst Haack; Johannes Haarer; Beat Helbling; Peter Hengstler; Denise Herzog; Cyrill Hess; Klaas Heyland; Thomas Hinterleitner; Philippe Hiroz; Claudia Hirschi; Petr Hruz; Rika Iwata; Res Jost; Pascal Juillerat; Vera Kessler Brondolo; Christina Knellwolf; Christoph Knoblauch; Henrik Köhler; Rebekka Koller; Claudia Krieger-Grübel; Gerd Kullak-Ublick; Patrizia Künzler; Markus Landolt; Rupprecht Lange; Frank Serge Lehmann; Andrew Macpherson; Philippe Maerten; Michel H. Maillard; Christine Manser; Michael Manz; Urs Marbet; George Marx; Christoph Matter; Valérie McLin; Rémy Meier; Martina Mendanova; Christa Meyenberger; Pierre Michetti; Benjamin Misselwitz; Darius Moradpour; Bernhard Morell; Patrick Mosler; Christian Mottet; Christoph Müller; Pascal Müller; Beat Müllhaupt; Claudia Münger-Beyeler; Leilla Musso; Andreas Nagy; Michaela Neagu; Cristina Nichita; Jan Niess; Natacha Noël; Andreas Nydegger; Nicole Obialo; Carl Oneta; Cassandra Oropesa; Ueli Peter; Daniel Peternac; Laetitia Marie Petit; Franziska Piccoli-Gfeller; Julia Beatrice Pilz; Valérie Pittet; Nadia Raschle; Ronald Rentsch; Sophie Restellini; Jean-Pierre Richterich; Sylvia Rihs; Marc Alain Ritz; Jocelyn Roduit; Daniela Rogler; Gerhard Rogler; Jean-Benoît Rossel; Markus Sagmeister; Gaby Saner; Bernhard Sauter; Mikael Sawatzki; Michela Schäppi; Michael Scharl; Martin Schelling; Susanne Schibli; Hugo Schlauri; Sybille Schmid Uebelhart; Jean-François Schnegg; Alain Schoepfer; Frank Seibold; Mariam Seirafi; Gian-Marco Semadeni; David Semela; Arne Senning; Marc Sidler; Christiane Sokollik; Johannes Spalinger; Holger Spangenberger; Philippe Stadler; Michael Steuerwald; Alex Straumann; Bigna Straumann-Funk; Michael Sulz; Joël Thorens; Sarah Tiedemann; Radu Tutuian; Stephan Vavricka; Francesco Viani; Jürg Vögtlin; Roland Von Känel; Alain Vonlaufen; Dominique Vouillamoz; Rachel Vulliamy; Jürg Wermuth; Helene Werner; Paul Wiesel; Reiner Wiest; Tina Wylie; Jonas Zeitz; Dorothee Zimmermann.
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