Nonergot dopamine-receptor agonists for treating Parkinson’s disease – a network meta-analysis
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Auteurs : Kristian Thorlund ; Ping Wu ; Eric Druyts ; Shawn Eapen ; Edward J. MillsSource :
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment [ 1176-6328 ] ; 2014.
Abstract
To compare the efficacy of the three nonergot dopamine-receptor agonists (DAs) pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine for the treatment of early and advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Bayesian network meta-analyses were performed separately for early and advanced PD, and at time points 11–16 and 24–28 weeks. Outcomes for early PD included improvement on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) activities in daily life (UPDRS-II), motor function (UPDRS-III), and their subtotal (UPDRS-II + III). Outcomes for advanced PD also included daily “off time” (hours), but not UPDRS-II + III.
Totals of 23 and 24 trials informed early and advanced PD analyses. For early PD UPDRS-II at 11–16 weeks, pramipexole and rotigotine were statistically significantly superior to placebo, but ropinirole was not. For UPDRS-III and UPDRS-II + III, all DAs were statistically significantly better than placebo and exhibited similar improvements. At 24–28 weeks, results were also statistically significant for all DAs versus placebo, and the magnitudes of improvements were similar for pramipexole, ropinirole and rotigotine. Advanced PD improvements on UPDRS-II, UPRDS-III, and off time were statistically significant for pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine versus placebo. At 11–16 weeks, rotigotine yielded slightly smaller effects than ropinirole and pramipexole, but credible intervals on differences were wide. For off time, results were near identical. At 24–28 weeks, results were similar for all three outcomes. Ropinirole yielded a slightly higher improvement on UPDRS-III, but a slightly smaller improvement in off time.
Our analyses suggest that pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine exhibit similar efficacy in the treatment of early and advanced PD.
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DOI: 10.2147/NDT.S60061
PubMed: 24855362
PubMed Central: 4019622
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Mills</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af2-ndt-10-767">Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af3-ndt-10-767">Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada</nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="af4-ndt-10-767">Redwood Outcomes, Vancouver, BC, Canada</nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment</title><idno type="ISSN">1176-6328</idno><idno type="eISSN">1178-2021</idno><imprint><date when="2014">2014</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><sec><title>Objective</title><p>To compare the efficacy of the three nonergot dopamine-receptor agonists (DAs) pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine for the treatment of early and advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD).</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>Bayesian network meta-analyses were performed separately for early and advanced PD, and at time points 11–16 and 24–28 weeks. Outcomes for early PD included improvement on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) activities in daily life (UPDRS-II), motor function (UPDRS-III), and their subtotal (UPDRS-II + III). Outcomes for advanced PD also included daily “off time” (hours), but not UPDRS-II + III.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Totals of 23 and 24 trials informed early and advanced PD analyses. For early PD UPDRS-II at 11–16 weeks, pramipexole and rotigotine were statistically significantly superior to placebo, but ropinirole was not. For UPDRS-III and UPDRS-II + III, all DAs were statistically significantly better than placebo and exhibited similar improvements. At 24–28 weeks, results were also statistically significant for all DAs versus placebo, and the magnitudes of improvements were similar for pramipexole, ropinirole and rotigotine. Advanced PD improvements on UPDRS-II, UPRDS-III, and off time were statistically significant for pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine versus placebo. At 11–16 weeks, rotigotine yielded slightly smaller effects than ropinirole and pramipexole, but credible intervals on differences were wide. For off time, results were near identical. At 24–28 weeks, results were similar for all three outcomes. Ropinirole yielded a slightly higher improvement on UPDRS-III, but a slightly smaller improvement in off time.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Our analyses suggest that pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine exhibit similar efficacy in the treatment of early and advanced PD.</p></sec></div></front><back><div1 type="bibliography"><listBibl><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Sweet, Rd" uniqKey="Sweet R">RD Sweet</name></author><author><name sortKey="Mcdowell, Fh" uniqKey="Mcdowell F">FH McDowell</name></author></analytic></biblStruct><biblStruct><analytic><author><name sortKey="Lesser, Rp" uniqKey="Lesser R">RP Lesser</name></author><author><name sortKey="Fahn, S" uniqKey="Fahn S">S Fahn</name></author><author><name sortKey="Snider, Sr" uniqKey="Snider S">SR Snider</name></author><author><name sortKey="Cote, Lj" uniqKey="Cote L">LJ Cote</name></author><author><name sortKey="Isgreen, Wp" uniqKey="Isgreen W">WP 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">1176-6328</issn><issn pub-type="epub">1178-2021</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Dove Medical Press</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">24855362</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4019622</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2147/NDT.S60061</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ndt-10-767</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Original Research</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Nonergot dopamine-receptor agonists for treating Parkinson’s disease – a network meta-analysis</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Thorlund</surname><given-names>Kristian</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1-ndt-10-767">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-ndt-10-767">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4-ndt-10-767">4</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c1-ndt-10-767"></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Wu</surname><given-names>Ping</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-ndt-10-767">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4-ndt-10-767">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Druyts</surname><given-names>Eric</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-ndt-10-767">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4-ndt-10-767">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Eapen</surname><given-names>Shawn</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-ndt-10-767">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4-ndt-10-767">4</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mills</surname><given-names>Edward J</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2-ndt-10-767">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af3-ndt-10-767">3</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af4-ndt-10-767">4</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="af1-ndt-10-767"><label>1</label>Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada</aff><aff id="af2-ndt-10-767"><label>2</label>Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA</aff><aff id="af3-ndt-10-767"><label>3</label>Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada</aff><aff id="af4-ndt-10-767"><label>4</label>Redwood Outcomes, Vancouver, BC, Canada</aff><author-notes><corresp id="c1-ndt-10-767">Correspondence: Kristian Thorlund, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada, Email <email>thorluk@mcmaster.ca</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>07</day><month>5</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><fpage>767</fpage><lpage>776</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014 Thorlund et al. This work is published by Dove Medical Press Limited, and licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>The full terms of the License are available at <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link>. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><sec><title>Objective</title><p>To compare the efficacy of the three nonergot dopamine-receptor agonists (DAs) pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine for the treatment of early and advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD).</p></sec><sec><title>Materials and methods</title><p>Bayesian network meta-analyses were performed separately for early and advanced PD, and at time points 11–16 and 24–28 weeks. Outcomes for early PD included improvement on the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) activities in daily life (UPDRS-II), motor function (UPDRS-III), and their subtotal (UPDRS-II + III). Outcomes for advanced PD also included daily “off time” (hours), but not UPDRS-II + III.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Totals of 23 and 24 trials informed early and advanced PD analyses. For early PD UPDRS-II at 11–16 weeks, pramipexole and rotigotine were statistically significantly superior to placebo, but ropinirole was not. For UPDRS-III and UPDRS-II + III, all DAs were statistically significantly better than placebo and exhibited similar improvements. At 24–28 weeks, results were also statistically significant for all DAs versus placebo, and the magnitudes of improvements were similar for pramipexole, ropinirole and rotigotine. Advanced PD improvements on UPDRS-II, UPRDS-III, and off time were statistically significant for pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine versus placebo. At 11–16 weeks, rotigotine yielded slightly smaller effects than ropinirole and pramipexole, but credible intervals on differences were wide. For off time, results were near identical. At 24–28 weeks, results were similar for all three outcomes. Ropinirole yielded a slightly higher improvement on UPDRS-III, but a slightly smaller improvement in off time.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Our analyses suggest that pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine exhibit similar efficacy in the treatment of early and advanced PD.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><title>Keywords</title><kwd>Parkinson’s disease</kwd><kwd>dopamine-receptor agonists</kwd><kwd>network meta-analysis</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec><title>Background</title><p>Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects about 10 million people worldwide annually.<xref rid="b1-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">1</xref>,<xref rid="b2-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">2</xref> PD is characterized by movement-related symptoms, such as bradykinesia, dyskinesia, rigidity, and tremor.<xref rid="b1-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">1</xref> Over time, PD may also cause symptoms of depression and dementia.<xref rid="b1-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">1</xref> The disease can therefore have a severe impact on patients’ quality of life, especially at its later stages (ie, moderate-to-severe PD).</p><p>Currently, no cure exists for PD, but a number of pharmacological therapies have been shown to suppress key disease-related symptoms, and possibly delay progression to later stages of the disease. Conventional first-line treatment for PD is levodopa, a precursor to the neurotransmitter dopamine, which can cross the protective blood–brain barrier and increase dopamine concentrations. In the central nervous system, levodopa is converted into dopamine by the DOPA decarboxylase. However, the peripheral conversion of levodopa into dopamine can often cause long-term permanent adverse effects (eg, motor fluctuations or dyskinesia).<xref rid="b3-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">3</xref>,<xref rid="b4-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">4</xref> For this reason, levodopa is typically coadministered with a peripheral DOPA decarboxylase inhibitor (DDCI), such as carbidopa or benserazide, which counterintuitively has been demonstrated to improve levodopa treatment considerably. However, long-term adverse events still remain with the addition of DDCI, and for this reason some recommend putting off levodopa treatment as long as possible.<xref rid="b5-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">5</xref></p><p>Early stage levodopa-naïve PD patients may therefore receive other active agents, and levodopa-experienced patients may be switched to these agents. Other agents may also be useful in advanced-stage PD patients as adjuvant therapy to levodopa, when the effects of levodopa have started to fade. Dopamine-receptor agonists (DAs) are a viable alternative to levodopa in early stage PD patients, as well as a commonly used adjuvant therapy in advanced-stage PD patients.<xref rid="b6-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">6</xref> The first generation of DAs, the ergot DAs, are not commonly used in practice, due to firm evidence of increased risk of valvular heart disease.<xref rid="b7-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">7</xref> Second-generation DAs, the nonergot DAs, are now the conventional choice. It has been shown that initiating therapy with nonergot DAs reduces the risk of motor-complication development at later stages (in contrast to levodopa). However, some controversy remains, since DAs do not produce dopamine in the striatum (as levodopa does), and thus potentially this leads to destruction of the substantia nigra, resulting in an attenuation of the effect of levodopa if initiated at a later stage.</p><p>Few randomized clinical trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews have established the efficacy and safety of DAs as alternative treatments to levodopa in early stage PD patients and as adjuvant therapy to levodopa in advanced-stage PD patients.<xref rid="b8-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>,<xref rid="b9-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">9</xref> No analysis to date has investigated whether these therapies exhibit similar efficacy profiles, or whether some therapies work better than others. For this reason, network meta-analysis was undertaken to explore the comparative efficacy of the available nonergot DAs – rotigotine, ropinirole, and pramipexole – on key efficacy outcomes. The comparative efficacy of the three nonergot DAs was established at two time points after completed dose titration: 11–16 weeks and 24–28 weeks.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods"><title>Materials and methods</title><sec><title>Eligibility criteria</title><p>We considered the patients, experimental interventions, control interventions, and outcomes (PICO) outlined in the PICO statement presented in <xref ref-type="table" rid="t1-ndt-10-767">Table 1</xref>. Separately, we considered patients diagnosed with early and advanced (late) PD who were treatment-naïve to the treatment class being investigated. According to Hoehn and Yahr, a score of less than 3 is early PD, and a score of 3 or more is advanced PD. However, we left this definition to the discretion of the individual trial investigators. The experimental interventions of interest were pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine (nonergot DAs). The control interventions were the older ergot DAs and placebo/levodopa/levodopa + DDCI. Any RCT comparing at least two of these was considered.</p></sec><sec><title>Search strategy</title><p>With the assistance of a medical librarian, a search strategy was developed, and a systematic search of the medical literature was conducted using Medline, Embase, and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register. The database-search strategy was sensitive and broad, utilizing a collection of search terms previously used in published systematic reviews of pharmacotherapies for PD.<xref rid="b8-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">8</xref>,<xref rid="b9-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">9</xref> The Medline search algorithm is presented in the Supplementary material. Lastly, the bibliographies of all identified relevant studies were used to perform a recursive search of the literature. Articles were independently assessed by two reviewers using predesigned eligibility forms, according to prospectively defined eligibility criteria. There were no language restrictions.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods"><title>Data extraction</title><p>All identified abstracts were scanned in by two pairs of reviewers (KT and PW; and ED and SE) to determine if they met the eligibility criteria. Disagreement was resolved by discussion, and if no agreement could be met, by a third adjudicator (EJM). Data extraction was also conducted independently and in duplicate by two pairs of reviewers (KT and PW; and ED and SE) with disagreement resolved through a third adjudicator (EJM).</p><sec><title>Extracted variables</title><p>Among the eligible RCTs, a number of variables related to the study design, interventions, and patient characteristics were extracted. For the study design, the following variables were extracted: patient-eligibility criteria, definition of PD, and number of patients and centers. For the interventions, the following variables were extracted: dosage, duration and route of administration for all active and control intervention, allowed cointerventions, and proportion of patients on allowed cointerventions. For patient baseline characteristics, the following variables were extracted: age, proportion of females, disease duration, treatment history, proportion suffering from concomitant neurodegenerative disorders, proportions of patients suffering from other disease-related disorders (eg, proportion suffering from depression, proportion suffering from dementia), and Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) scores and UPDRS-domain scores. All patient baseline characteristics were extracted for each intervention arm. Further, all of the outcomes were extracted at all time points between 11 weeks and 28 weeks (after completion of dose titration).</p></sec></sec><sec><title>Analyses</title><sec><title>Imputation of standard errors</title><p>Because the intervention group standard errors (SEs) were not reported in many of the identified trials, these were either approximated from the reported statistics or imputed. In particular, when the variance, standard deviation (SD), or SE of the difference between groups was reported, the intervention-group SE was calculated assuming equal SDs in the two groups. Similarly, when only <italic>P</italic>-values were reported for the difference between two groups, the SE of the mean difference was first derived, and subsequently the intervention-group SEs were approximated, assuming equal SDs across groups. Where the SE, SD, or variance was only reported at one time point, the same value was imputed for the remaining time points. Lastly, where no data were available to calculate the SE, the median across other trial intervention-group SEs (reported and approximated) was imputed.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods"><title>Statistical analysis</title><p>Network meta-analyses using a Bayesian approach were performed for early PD and advanced PD.<xref rid="b10-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">10</xref>–<xref rid="b12-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">12</xref> These analyses were performed for both “shorter duration” and “longer duration”. Here, two categories were used. The shorter-duration outcomes were defined as those reported after 11 and 16 weeks of treatment (excluding titration period). The longer-duration outcomes were defined as those reported 24–28 weeks of treatment (excluding titration period). For early PD, analyses were performed on change from baseline on the UPDRS-II, UPDRS-III, and UPDRS-II + III. For advanced PD, analyses were performed on change from baseline on UPDRS-II, UPDRS-III, and reduction from baseline in “off time” (hours/daily).</p><p>All of the considered outcomes were continuous, and for that reason, the employed effect measure in all Bayesian network meta-analysis models was the mean difference (MD), which is the difference between the mean change from baseline in two intervention groups (ie, the difference between the mean responses in the two intervention groups). MDs were produced for all comparisons between nonergot DAs and placebo, and estimation uncertainty was represented with 95% credible intervals (CrIs; the Bayesian equivalent of conventional frequentist confidence intervals [CIs]). RCTs reporting continuous data may report either intervention-group mean responses or the calculated mean differences. To account for differences in reporting, the shared-parameter model, outlined in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence technical support document 2, was employed.<xref rid="b11-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">11</xref> This approach allows for network meta-analyses fully integrating the data in its originally reported format (ie, either intervention-group mean responses or calculated MDs), rather than forcing recalculation of group mean responses to MDs.</p><p>For all outcomes, the control-group mean responses were modeled from a normal distribution with a population mean and variance, representing a random-effect “control response” between trials. When two controls existed (ie, placebo and levodopa), each control was modeled via two separate normal distributions, representing two random-effect terms in the model. MDs between interventions were assumed to follow normal distributions, and unexplained between-trial heterogeneity on the mean difference was accounted for using a conventional Bayesian random-effect model. Normal distributions with mean 0 and variance 10,000 were used as noninformative prior distributions for the control-response and MD parameters. For the between-trial standard deviations for control-response and MD parameters, uniform distributions between 0 and 5 were assigned as noninformative priors. Considering the range of values that the control responses and MDs fell within, these priors carries very little information for between-trial heterogeneity estimation. All statistical analyses were conducted in WinBUGS version 1.4.3 (BUGS Project, Cambridge, UK).<xref rid="b13-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">13</xref> The WinBUGS code and data sets are available from the authors upon request.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods"><title>Scenario analysis for UPDRS-II + III in early PD</title><p>In a key RCT on early PD patients by Giladi et al<xref rid="b14-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">14</xref> comparing rotigotine to ropinirole, the reported UPDRS-II + III response with ropinirole was substantially higher than that observed in other trials, which led to concerns about including this trial. In three other identified ropinirole trials of similar patient populations and study duration (Rascol et al,<xref rid="b15-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">15</xref> Singer et al,<xref rid="b16-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">16</xref> and Watts et al<xref rid="b17-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>) the UPDRS-II + III improvements were highly homogeneous, and ranged from 5.20 to 7.52. By contrast, the reported improvement on UPDRS-II + III in the Giladi et al trial was 11.0. A forest plot of the ropinirole arm UPDRS-II + III responses from the four trials visually shows clear heterogeneity between Giladi et al and the other three trials, and the estimated degree of heterogeneity across the four trials, <italic>I</italic><sup>2</sup>=90% (95% CI 76%–95%), was high. By contrast, a forest plot of the three trials by Rascol et al,<xref rid="b15-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">15</xref> Singer et al,<xref rid="b16-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">16</xref> and Watts et al<xref rid="b17-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">17</xref> visually suggests no or very little heterogeneity, and the estimated degree of heterogeneity across the three trials, <italic>I</italic><sup>2</sup>=0 (95% CI 0%–73%), with the upper bound of the CIs lying below the lower bound of the confidence interval from the forest plot, including Giladi et al. Collectively, these heterogeneity assessments raise concern about the validity of including the trial by Giladi et al. For this reason, our primary analysis excluded the trial by Giladi et al, but a second scenario analysis included the trial by Giladi et al. Lastly, to test the robustness of the SD imputations, we conducted sensitivity analyses excluding all trials where full imputation was performed (ie, only those where no other trial statistics were available to approximate the SE).</p></sec></sec></sec><sec sec-type="results"><title>Results</title><sec sec-type="conclusions"><title>Summary of the evidence base</title><p>For early PD, a total of 23 trials were included,<xref rid="b14-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>–<xref rid="b36-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">36</xref> of which 20 trials informed the analysis for the 11- to 16-week time point,<xref rid="b15-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">15</xref>,<xref rid="b16-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">16</xref>,<xref rid="b18-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">18</xref>–<xref rid="b28-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>,<xref rid="b30-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">30</xref>–<xref rid="b36-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">36</xref> and eleven trials informed the analyses for the 24- to 28-week time point.<xref rid="b14-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>–<xref rid="b17-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">17</xref>,<xref rid="b19-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">19</xref>–<xref rid="b21-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">21</xref>,<xref rid="b28-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">28</xref>–<xref rid="b30-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">30</xref>,<xref rid="b33-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">33</xref> Two trials compared two nonergot DAs head to head,<xref rid="b14-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">14</xref>,<xref rid="b27-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">27</xref> while indirect evidence for the comparison of DAs was available from trials comparing any of the nonergot DAs with placebo, with levodopa + DDCI, and with ergot DAs (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1-ndt-10-767">Figure 1</xref>). For advanced PD, a total of 22 trials were included,<xref rid="b38-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">38</xref>–<xref rid="b59-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">59</xref> of which 13 trials informed the analysis for the 11- to 16-week time point,<xref rid="b38-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">38</xref>,<xref rid="b39-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">39</xref>,<xref rid="b41-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">41</xref>–<xref rid="b44-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">44</xref>,<xref rid="b46-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">46</xref>,<xref rid="b47-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">47</xref>,<xref rid="b50-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">50</xref>,<xref rid="b53-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">53</xref>,<xref rid="b57-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">57</xref>–<xref rid="b59-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">59</xref> and 13 trials informed the analyses for the 24- to 28-week time point.<xref rid="b40-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">40</xref>,<xref rid="b42-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">42</xref>,<xref rid="b44-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">44</xref>,<xref rid="b45-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">45</xref>,<xref rid="b48-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">48</xref>–<xref rid="b52-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">52</xref>,<xref rid="b54-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">54</xref>–<xref rid="b57-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">57</xref> One trial compared two nonergot DAs head to head,<xref rid="b18-ndt-10-767" ref-type="bibr">18</xref> while indirect evidence for the comparison of DAs was available from trials comparing any of the nonergot DAs with levodopa + DDCI and with ergot DAs (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2-ndt-10-767">Figure 2</xref>). An overview of included trials for early PD and advanced PD, and the outcomes and time points informed by each of these trials, are presented in the Supplementary material. The treatment networks for each of the outcomes in the early PD and advanced PD analyses are presented in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f1-ndt-10-767">Figures 1</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="f2-ndt-10-767">2</xref>, respectively. Note that although some RCTs that included levodopa only (ie, no DDCI) were identified, none of these collectively contributed any indirect evidence, and so they were excluded.</p></sec><sec sec-type="intro|conclusions"><title>Summary of patient and treatment characteristics</title><p>The included trials were similar in terms of key patient characteristics (eg, age, disease duration, disease severity) (Supplementary material). For both early PD and advanced PD, the average age generally fell within 60–65 years, with SDs indicating a patient population of ages ranging from 50 to 75 years. For early PD patients, the average PD duration was 1–2 years, with SDs indicating a patient population ranging from <1 year to about 5 or 6 years. Patients’ disease severity according to Hoehn and Yahr staging generally fell at stages I or II, with only a minor proportion of patients being staged at III. For advanced PD patients, the average PD duration generally fell within 4–10 years, but with SDs indicating a patient population ranging from 2 years’ PD history to up to 15 or 20 years’ history. Patients’ disease severity according to the Hoehn and Yahr was, on average, larger than 2.5, with a large proportion of patients being at PD stage III or above. For both early PD and advanced PD patients, doses of administered DAs as well as backbone levodopa (+ DDCI) varied moderately (Supplementary material). Allowed background medication (eg, concomitant deprenyl or anticholinergics) and the proportions of patients receiving such medications also varied, and for many trials were not well reported.</p></sec><sec sec-type="methods|results"><title>Results of the network meta-analysis</title><p><xref ref-type="table" rid="t2-ndt-10-767">Table 2</xref> presents the network meta-analysis results for early PD patients. For all outcomes and time points, pramipexole, ropinirole, rotigotine and levodopa (+ DDCI) compared with placebo yielded “statistically significant” MDs (ie, 95% CrIs did not overlap 0.00), with the exception of ropinirole versus placebo for UPDRS-II. For UPDRS-II at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine (the three DAs) were similar, ranging from −1.01 (rotigotine) to −1.28 (ropinirole). Levodopa was associated with a slightly higher mean improvement of −1.77, and 95% CrIs were overlapping for all interventions. For UPDRS-III at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −2.85 (ropinirole) to −3.40 (pramipexole). Levodopa was associated with a substantially higher mean improvement of −6.09, which was significantly better than all DAs. For the subtotal of UPDRS-II + III at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were also similar, −4.18 (ropinirole) to −4.52 (rotigotine), and levodopa was associated with mean improvement of −8.59 (again, significantly better than all DAs).</p><p>For UPDRS-II at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −1.67 (pramipexole) to −2.39 (ropinrole). Levodopa was associated with a slightly higher mean improvement of −2.76, and 95% CrIs were overlapping for all interventions. For UPDRS-III at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −3.78 (rotigotine) and −4.37 (pramipexole) to −5.18 (ropinirole). Levodopa was associated with a higher mean improvement of −7.26, and levodopa was significantly superior to pramipexole and ropinirole, and marginally significantly superior to rotigotine. For the subtotal of UPDRS-II + III at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were also similar, ranging from −5.35 (rotigotine) to −6.32 (ropinirole). Levodopa was associated with mean improvement approximately 50% larger than that of the DAs, but CrIs were wide. Under the scenario analysis including the trial by Giladi et al, the mean improvement of pramipexole was relatively unchanged at 6.18 (95% CrI −8.79 to −3.50), the mean improvement associated with ropinirole increased to −7.11 (95% CrI −10.1 to −4.00), and the mean improvement associated with rotigotine decreased to −5.02 (95% CrI −8.52 to −1.50). For all early PD analyses, sensitivity analyses excluding all trials with fully imputed SDs excluded a maximum of two trials per analysis (but generally zero or one), and did not have a notable impact on results.</p><p><xref ref-type="table" rid="t3-ndt-10-767">Table 3</xref> presents the network meta-analysis results for advanced PD patients. For all outcomes and time points, pramipexole, ropinirole, rotigotine compared with placebo yielded statistically significant mean differences. For UPDRS-II at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine were similar, ranging from −1.71 (rotigotine) to −2.03 (pramipexole). For UPDRS-III at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −3.84 (rotigotine) to −5.03 (pramipexole). For off time at the 11- to 16-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were also similar, ranging from −1.44 (ropinirole) to −1.52 and −1.53 for pramipexole and ropinirole, respectively.</p><p>For UPDRS-II at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −2.18 (pramipexole) to −2.25 (rotigotine). For UPDRS-III at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were similar, ranging from −4.22 (pramipexole) to −4.84 (ropinirole). For off time at the 24- to 28-week time point, mean improvements associated with the three DAs were also similar, ranging from −1.17 (ropinirole) to −1.60 (pramipexole). For all advanced PD analyses, sensitivity analyses excluding all trials with fully imputed SDs excluded a maximum of two trials per analysis (but generally zero or one), and did not have a notable impact on results.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="discussion"><title>Discussion</title><p>The results of our network meta-analysis suggest that compared with placebo, the three nonergot DAs pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine are all equally effective in improving activities in daily life (UPDRS-II), motor function (UPDRS-III), and reducing daily hours of off time (analyzed for advanced PD only). Our analysis also suggests that for patients with early PD, levodopa + DDCI provides greater improvement in motor function than nonergot DAs. However, there was statistical evidence to suggest that levodopa + DDCI provides greater benefit on activities in daily life.</p><p>The conducted network meta-analyses results come with a number of strengths and limitations. Our extensive literature search ensured the inclusion of all relevant RCTs, and a detailed trial-eligibility evaluation ensured that the RCTs were highly comparable in terms of patient populations and baseline characteristics. Our analyses gain clinical relevance in that we looked at both early and advanced PD. Furthermore, the robustness of results was checked in a number of scenario analyses taking out potential outliers. The homogeneity across trials was improved by separating results into narrow time intervals. However, a few of the outcomes within each time interval were only sparsely informed, and thus were associated with wide CrIs. The similarity of key trial characteristics was checked to ensure that it was reasonable to combine them in a network meta-analysis. Unfortunately, limited data were available on the proportion of patients receiving concomitant therapies (eg, percentage of patients concomitantly on deprenyl), as well as patients’ prior use of levodopa and other agents. As such, it was not possible to examine the influence of these variables on treatment effects directly. Visual inspection of the data available on concomitant medication suggests some nonnegligible variation between trials. This raises some concerns about confounding. However, it is important to remember that DAs compared with other medications target different pathways or points on the pathophysiological cascade leading to PD symptoms, and thus would still exhibit an effect regardless of current concomitant medications. Therefore, the expected degree of confounding is likely negligible.</p><p>The findings of our network meta-analyses are generalizable to patients who share characteristics similar to those randomized in the included trials, and patients receiving similar doses of the considered interventions to those administered in the included trials. In particular, in early PD patients, the similar efficacy of pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine on activities in daily life and motor function, as well as the superiority of levodopa on motor function, can be expected whenever these are administered within the dose ranges that are common in the clinical trials. Further, similar efficacy can be expected in patients of age approximately 45–75 years, who have generally not been diagnosed with PD for longer than 4 years, and whose disease severity generally corresponds to Hoehn and Yahr staging below III. For advanced PD, similar efficacy of pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine can be expected whenever these are administered within the dose ranges that are common in the clinical trials. Additionally, similar efficacy can be expected in patients of age approximately 45–75 years, who have generally been diagnosed with PD for about 4–10 years (but ranging up to 20 years) and whose disease severity generally corresponds to Hoehn and Yahr staging above 2.5 (ie, 3 or above).</p><p>Due to the large number of efficacy outcomes assessed in this study, we did not consider adverse events. Future network meta-analyses comparing DAs, levodopa and potentially other agents should also consider safety issues. Our network meta-analysis, therefore, has merit in informing the efficacy part of clinical practice decision making, but other sources of evidence, such as systematic reviews reporting on safety issues, should be considered in this equation. This is particularly important for the comparison of DAs with levodopa, due to the long-term adverse effects commonly known to be associated with levodopa.</p><p>Overall, our network meta-analyses suggest the three nonergot dopamine receptor agonists pramipexole, ropinirole, and rotigotine exhibit similar if not equal efficacy over time for the important outcomes activity in daily life, motor function for patients with early and advanced PD, and off time for patients with advanced PD.</p></sec></body><back><fn-group><fn><p>Disclosure</p><p>KT and EJM have previously consulted with Merck, Pfizer, Novartis, Janssen, and Gilead on systematic review issues. In addition, they have received grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and been consultants to the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health and the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). KT’s salary is supported by CIHR. EJM’s salary is supported by a CIHR Canada Research Chair. ED, PW, and SE have no conflicts of interest to report. The authors originally prepared this study as a health-technology assessment (HTA) report submission for UCB Canada Inc., and subsequently rewrote the report into a manuscript. Funding for the HTA report was provided by UCB Canada Inc. 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The circles (nodes) represent each of the interventions where randomized clinical trial (RCT) data were available for the particular outcome. The lines between circles show which pair-wise comparisons were informed by RCTs, and the numbers on the lines show the number of RCTs informing a particular comparison.</p><p><bold>Abbreviations:</bold> UPDRS, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; DDCI, decarboxylase inhibitor.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="ndt-10-767Fig1"></graphic></fig><fig id="f2-ndt-10-767" position="float"><label>Figure 2</label><caption><p>Treatment networks for the three outcomes at the two time points for advanced Parkinson’s disease. The circles (nodes) represent each of the interventions where randomized clinical trials (RCT) data was available for the particular outcome. The lines between circles show which pair wise comparisons were informed by RCTs, and the number in the lines show the number of RCTs informing a particular comparison.</p><p><bold>Abbreviation:</bold> UPDRS, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="ndt-10-767Fig2"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="t1-ndt-10-767" position="float"><label>Table 1</label><caption><p>Types of patients, interventions, controls, and outcomes (PICO) considered for the proposed study</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="2" colspan="1">PICO</th><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1">Eligibility criteria and considered components
<hr></hr></th></tr><tr><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Early Parkinson’s patients</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Advanced Parkinson’s patients</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Population</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Adults over 18 years of age with early Parkinson’s disease</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Adults over 18 years of age with advanced Parkinson’s disease</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="3" colspan="1">Experimental interventions</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Rotigotine</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Rotigotine</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Ropinirole*</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Ropinirole*</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Pramipexole*</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Pramipexole*</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="7" colspan="1">Control interventions</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Levodopa</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Levodopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Levodopa + DDCI</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Levodopa + DDCI</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Bromocriptine</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Bromocriptine</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Cabergoline</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Cabergoline</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Piribedil</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Piribedil</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Pergolide</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– Pergolide</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="3" colspan="1">Outcomes</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– UPDRS-II (ADL)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– UPDRS-II (ADL)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– UPDRS-III (motor function)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– UPDRS-III (motor function)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– UPDRS-II + III</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">– “Off time” reduction</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn id="tfn1-ndt-10-767"><p><bold>Notes:</bold> Levodopa was considered either alone or in combination with carbidopa or benserazide. *Immediate-release and extended-release formulations of both pramipexole and ropinirole were considered the same treatment.</p></fn><fn id="tfn2-ndt-10-767"><p><bold>Abbreviations:</bold> DDCI, decarboxylase inhibitor; UPDRS, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale; ADL, activities in daily life.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="t2-ndt-10-767" position="float"><label>Table 2</label><caption><p>Analysis of early Parkinson’s disease population</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Comparison</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">UPDRS-II</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">UPDRS-III</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">UPDRS-II + III</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1">11–16 weeks</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> L-Dopa versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.77 (−3.15 to −0.38)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−6.09 (−8.29 to −3.89)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−8.59 (−10.8 to −6.26)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.15 (−1.77 to −0.38)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−3.40 (−4.56 to −2.44)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.33 (−5.35 to −3.32)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.28 (−3.44 to 0.87)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.85 (−5.09 to −0.89)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.18 (−6.15 to −2.26)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.01 (−1.68 to −0.33)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−3.34 (−4.99 to −1.71)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.52 (−5.70 to −3.29)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.62 (−0.60 to 1.88)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.71 (0.63 to 4.64)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.26 (1.06 to 6.35)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.56 (−1.54 to 2.54)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.25 (0.92 to 5.39)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.42 (1.78 to 6.90)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.76 (−0.57 to 2.16)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.76 (0.18 to 5.33)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.08 (1.56 to 6.58)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.11 (−2.24 to 2.25)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.57 (−1.70 to 2.76)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.15 (−1.94 to 2.22)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.14 (−0.97 to 0.70)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.06 (−2.77 to 2.10)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.17 (−1.61 to 1.40)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus ropinirole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.28 (−2.41 to 1.98)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.50 (−3.01 to 2.30)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.32 (−2.00 to 2.58)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1">24–28 weeks</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> L-Dopa versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.76 (−4.77 to −0.81)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−7.26 (−10.7 to −3.86)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−9.15 (−13.2 to −4.83)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.67 (−2.64 to −0.72)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.37 (−6.16 to −2.63)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−6.05 (−8.84 to −3.19)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.39 (−4.71 to 0.12)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−5.08 (−7.28 to −2.85)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−6.32 (−10.4 to −2.00)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.70 (−2.91 to −0.45)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−3.78 (−6.20 to −1.23)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−5.35 (−9.33 to −1.43)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.09 (−0.63 to 2.83)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.86 (0.24 to 5.51)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.09 (−1.18 to 7.17)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.38 (−0.97 to 1.94)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.15 (0.06 to 4.38)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.82 (−0.80 to 6.48)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus L-Dopa</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.06 (−1.23 to 3.43)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.46 (−0.03 to 7.17)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.78 (−2.00 to 9.40)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.72 (−2.82 to 1.64)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.71 (−3.15 to 1.84)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.25 (−4.67 to 4.34)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.03 (−1.55 to 1.54)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.61 (−2.32 to 3.69)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.70 (−4.07 to 5.46)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus ropinirole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.69 (−2.11 to 3.31)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.34 (−1.94 to 4.62)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.97 (−4.82 to 6.58)</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn id="tfn3-ndt-10-767"><p><bold>Notes:</bold> Mean differences and 95% credible intervals between active interventions and placebo for change from baseline on UPDRS-II, UPDRS-III, and UPDRS-II + III subtotal at 11–16 weeks and at 24–28 weeks after titration. Negative mean difference indicates superiority of the active intervention.</p></fn><fn id="tfn4-ndt-10-767"><p><bold>Abbreviation:</bold> UPDRS, Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><table-wrap id="t3-ndt-10-767" position="float"><label>Table 3</label><caption><p>Analysis of advanced Parkinson’s disease population</p></caption><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><thead><tr><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Comparison</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">UPDRS−II</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">UPDRS−III</th><th align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Off time</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1">11–16 weeks</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.03 (−2.69 to −1.37)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−5.03 (−6.73 to −3.39)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.53 (−2.11 to −0.95)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.84 (−3.22 to −0.44)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−5.01 (−8.43 to −1.63)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.44 (−2.06 to −0.79)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.71 (−2.62 to −0.78)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−3.84 (−6.94 to −0.89)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.52 (−2.46 to −0.47)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.18 (−1.27 to 1.62)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.00 (−3.73 to 3.83)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.11 (−0.74 to 0.91)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.32 (−0.68 to 1.35)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.21 (−1.77 to 4.11)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.01 (−0.99 to 1.06)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus ropinirole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.13 (−1.51 to 1.74)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.20 (−3.49 to 5.65)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.06 (−1.13 to 1.19)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1">24–28 weeks</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Pramipexole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.18 (−2.96 to −1.42)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.22 (−6.31 to −2.37)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.60 (−3.27 to −0.59)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.20 (−3.24 to −1.14)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.84 (−7.33 to −2.55)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.17 (−2.49 to −0.31)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus placebo</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−2.25 (−3.71 to −0.78)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−4.28 (−7.63 to −1.12)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−1.49 (−2.91 to −0.05)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Ropinirole versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.02 (−1.29 to 1.31)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.74 (−3.58 to 2.28)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.45 (−0.89 to 1.59)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus pramipexole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.06 (−1.62 to 1.77)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.07 (−3.87 to 3.73)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.10 (−1.68 to 1.79)</td></tr><tr><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Rotigotine versus ropinirole</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.05 (−1.71 to 1.91)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.64 (−3.41 to 4.60)</td><td align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.33 (−1.98 to 1.42)</td></tr></tbody></table><table-wrap-foot><fn 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