Digoxin-induced anemia among patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure: clinical data analysis and drug-gene interaction network.

ABSTRACT: Digoxin is widely used to treat various heart conditions. In order to clarify the association between digoxin and anemia adverse reaction, we inspected case reports submitted to the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) between January 2004 and December 2015. These reports involved 75618 atrial fibrillation patients and 15699 heart failure patients. Compared to other therapies, digoxin treatment was significantly more likely to be concurrent with anemia adverse reaction among both atrial fibrillation patients (pooled OR = 1.38, 95% CI 1.14-1.68, P-value = 0.001) and heart failure patients (pooled OR =1.50, 95% CI 1.33-1.59-, P =4.27×10^-5). We further explored previously published evidences and found 821 human genes directly or indirectly interacting with digoxin. Functional

SUBMITTER: Lin Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5593620 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature