Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, and Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi;
Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana;
International Mood Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California;
Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio;
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California;
Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana;
Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, and Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;
Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana;
Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, and Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA
Correspondence: Dr Rober Robertt Baker, Lilly Research Laboratories, Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN 46285, USA. Fax: +317 276 7100; e-mail: robertbaker{at}lilly.com
Declaration of interest R.W.B., E.B., L.M.S.,P.T.T.,J.G.W. and M.T. are employees of Eli Lilly and Company.
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Aims To evaluate the efficacy of olanzapine, in combination with lithium or valproate, for treating depressive symptoms associated with mania.
Method Secondary analysis of a 6-week, double-blind, randomised study of olanzapine (520 mg/day) or placebo combined with ongoing valproate or lithium open treatment for 344 patients in mixed or manic episodes. This analysis focused on a dysphoric subgroup with baseline Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) total scores of 20 or over contrasted with non-dysphoric patients.
Results In the dysphoric subgroup (n=85) mean HRSD total score improvement was significantly greater in olanzapine co-therapy patients than in those receiving placebo plus lithium or valproate (P<0.001). Substantial contributors to this superiority included the HRSD Maier sub-scale (P=0.013) and the suicide item (P=0.001). Total Young Mania Rating Scale improvement was also superior with olanzapine co-therapy.
Conclusions In patients with acute dysphoric mania, addition of olanzapine to ongoing lithium or valproate monotherapy significantly improved depressive symptom, mania and suicidality ratings.
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INTRODUCTION |
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METHOD |
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Patients
The protocol was approved by the institutional review board at each site,
and all patients provided written informed consent prior to administration of
any study procedures or study medications. At enrolment, all patients had
bipolar I disorder as defined by DSMIV criteria
(American Psychiatric Association,
1994), manic or mixed episode, with or without psychotic features,
assessed independently of the symptom rating scale scores. Diagnosis was
confirmed using the patient version of the Structured Clinical Interview for
DSMIV (SCIDP; First et
al, 1997). Patients were required to have had at least two
previous depressed, manic or mixed episodes, and to have had documented
treatment with lithium or valproate for at least 2 weeks prior to visit 1,
with a therapeutic blood level of lithium (0.61.2 mmol/l) or valproate
(50125 µg/ml) at visit 1. Patients were included in the study only
if they showed inadequate response to monotherapy for the 2 weeks prior to
randomisation, evidenced by a total score of 16 or more on the Young Mania
Rating Scale (YMRS; Young et al,
1978). After meeting entry criteria, patients were randomised in a
2:1 ratio to receive either adjunctive olanzapine (flexible daily dosage of 5,
10 or 20 mg) or adjunctive placebo in conjunction with their current valproate
or lithium for 6 weeks. Olanzapine was initiated at a daily dosage of 10 mg.
Plasma levels of lithium or valproate were documented to be within their
therapeutic serum ranges.
Patients were also permitted adjunctive benzodiazepine (2 mg daily of
lorazepam equivalents) for no more than 14 days cumulatively. Aside from the
study drugs, benzodiazepines and anticholinergics (benzatropine mesilate,
2 mg per day), no other psychotropic drug was permitted during the
study.
Assessments
Severity of illness was measured by the 11-item YMRS and the 21-item HRSD.
Ratings were completed at baseline and weekly during therapy. The post
hoc analysis focused on patients with moderate to severe dysphoric mania,
as defined by a baseline HRSD total score of 20 or over. This threshold has
been used by others to stratify patients into mild v. moderate to
severely ill categories in depression studies
(Thase et al, 1997).
Changes in severity of depressive symptoms were assessed using the HRSD total
score, HRSD Maier sub-scale and HRSD individual items. The Maier sub-scale
comprises six items: item 1 (depressed mood), item 2 (guilt), item 7 (work and
activities), item 8 (retardation), item 9 (agitation) and item 10 (psychic
anxiety) (Maier et al,
1985).
Statistical method
Comparisons of baseline demographic and illness characteristics between
patients with a baseline HRSD total score of 20 or above and patients with a
score below 20 were performed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) with
categorisation (dysphoric at baseline/non-dysphoric at baseline) in the model
for continuous variables and using Fisher's exact test for categorical
variables. Descriptive baseline demographic factors for the olanzapine and
placebo treatment groups were also tabulated. The primary efficacy measure was
the mean change from baseline to end-point (last observation carried forward
up to week 6) for HRSD total score. The ANOVA was performed with treatment,
dysphoric/non-dysphoric categorisation and interaction between categorisation
and treatment in the model. An additional model with treatment,
dysphoric/non-dysphoric categorisation, interaction between categorisation and
treatment, mood stabiliser (valproate or lithium) and the interaction between
mood stabiliser and categorisation was also explored. The hypothesis that mean
improvement in HRSD score in the olanzapine combination therapy group over the
placebo monotherapy group did not differ between patients with and without
baseline depressive symptoms was tested with the interaction test of
dysphoric/non-dysphoric categorisation by treatment. Similar analyses were
performed for the YMRS total score. Effect sizes were calculated as the
difference between combination therapy and monotherapy divided by the
estimated standard deviation obtained from the square root of the mean square
error of the ANOVA model.
To evaluate the time course of improvement, a mixed-model repeated measures (MMRM) analysis of variance was fitted for change from baseline in HRSD total score with investigator, treatment, visit, visittreatment interaction, dysphoric categorisation (dysphoric v. non-dysphoric), dysphoric categorisationtreatment and dysphoric categorisationvisit and the three-way interaction of dysphoric categorisationtreatmentvisit. An unstructured covariance matrix was fitted to the within-patient repeated measures. Using contrasts within the repeated measures model, the main overall effect of treatment within each dysphoric subgroup was assessed, as was the change from baseline to each visit between treatment groups.
Patients were analysed on an intention-to-treat basis for all analyses. Patients with a baseline assessment and at least one post-baseline measurement were included in the analysis. The YMRS and HRSD total scores were derived from the individual items; if any single item was missing, the total score was treated as missing. All P values were based on two-tailed tests with a significance level of 0.05.
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RESULTS |
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Efficacy: depressive symptoms
For the analysis of change in HRSD total score from baseline to end-point,
the interaction between mood stabiliser (valproate or lithium) and dysphoric
categorisation was not significant (P=0.290), indicating that the
treatment effect of olanzapine combination therapy over monotherapy was not
dependent upon whether patients were taking valproate or lithium. In addition,
the main effect of mood stabiliser was also not significant
(P=0.528), indicating that change in HRSD score did not differ in
patients taking valproate v. those taking lithium. Since these two
terms were not statistically significant, they were dropped from the model for
the analysis of HRSD total score as well as the HRSD Maier sub-scale and
individual items.
For the HRSD total score, there was a statistically significant interaction between categorisation (baseline dysphoric/non-dysphoric) and treatment group (P=0.016), indicating that mean HRSD score improvement in combination therapy patients over monotherapy patients differed between those with and without baseline dysphoria (Table 2). In both dysphoric and non-dysphoric patients, improvement in HRSD total score was significantly greater for patients receiving combination therapy compared with monotherapy (dysphoric group 8.82 v. 1.42, P<0.001; non-dysphoric group 2.87 v. 0.01, P=0.002). However, the magnitude of the difference between combination and monotherapy treatment groups was larger for the dysphoric patients (Fig. 1), thus driving the significant interaction. The difference between treatment groups is also apparent from a comparison of effect sizes for the dysphoric patients (1.11) with that of non-dysphoric patients (0.43).
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A significant interaction existed between treatment and dysphoric subgroup, indicating that treatment group differences were dependent upon patients' dysphoric status (dysphoric v. non-dysphoric). Furthermore, MMRM analysis detected a significant interaction between treatment and visit, indicating that the response over time differed between the treatment groups (P=0.009). Plots of changes in mean HRSD total scores over time for dysphoric and non-dysphoric subgroups are presented in Fig. 1. For each subgroup, an overall treatment difference was detected (olanzapine combination therapy superior to monotherapy; P<0.001 in both cases) and this difference was observed as early as the first post-randomisation visit (week 1).
Analysis of the HRSD Maier sub-scale revealed no significant interaction between dysphoric categorisation and treatment, indicating that the beneficial effect of combination therapy over monotherapy was similar in dysphoric and non-dysphoric patients. In both groups, improvement in Maier sub-scale score was significantly greater for patients receiving olanzapine combination therapy than for those receiving monotherapy (dysphoric group 2.73 v. 0.45, P=0.013; non-dysphoric group 1.07 v. 0.59, P=0.001).
Statistically significant interactions between dysphoric categorisation and treatment were observed for five HRSD individual items (Table 2). For each of these five items, dysphoric patients receiving olanzapine combination therapy demonstrated significantly superior improvement over those receiving monotherapy, corresponding to large effect sizes. In contrast, patients in the non-dysphoric category exhibited no significant difference for these five items and small effect sizes between treatment groups. In the case of item 10 (psychic anxiety), significant between-treatment differences were observed in both dysphoric and non-dysphoric patient groups. For HRSD items 1 (depressed mood) and 2 (feelings of guilt), effect sizes were approximately 0.45 for both subgroups however, significant treatment differences were only seen in the non-dysphoric group, possibly owing to the smaller size of the dysphoric group. In the case of HRSD items 20 (paranoid symptoms) and 21 (obsessional and compulsive symptoms), significant differences were detected between combination and monotherapy in the dysphoric patient group, whereas in the non-dysphoric group there was a significant difference between treatment groups for item 20 only.
Efficacy: manic symptoms
Analysis of YMRS total score revealed no significant interaction between
mood stabiliser (valproate or lithium) and treatment, or in the main effect of
mood stabiliser (P>0.20 for both), indicating that the difference
in treatment group response was not dependent upon whether patients were
receiving valproate or lithium. Furthermore, no statistically significant
interaction existed between dysphoric/non-dysphoric categorisation and
treatment (P=0.111; Table
2), indicating that improvements in mania severity for combination
therapy over monotherapy were independent of dysphoric/non-dysphoric
categorisation. Statistically significant differences were detected between
treatment groups for both dysphoric and non-dysphoric categories. The
difference between treatment groups was numerically (although not
significantly) larger for the dysphoric patients (interaction
P=0.111). However, this was due primarily to a larger monotherapy
response among non-dysphoric patients (mean change for dysphoric patients
4.65 v. non-dysphoric patients 9.78; P=0.013)
rather than a significant difference in combination treatment response between
groups (mean change for dysphoric patients 11.75 v.
non-dysphoric patients 13.06; P=0.361).
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DISCUSSION |
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Although defined rather differently, the terms dysphoric mania, depressive mania and mixed mania are used somewhat interchangeably, as each describes a manic episode complicated by prominent comorbid depressive features (Bauer et al, 1994; Akiskal et al, 1998; Dilsaver et al, 1999; Perugi et al, 2001). Given that patients experiencing these dysphoric manic episodes are reported to constitute up to two-thirds of bipolar disorder clinical samples (Akiskal et al, 2000), it might be expected that effective treatment options would exist. However, the overall prognosis for patients with dysphoric mania is worse than for those with pure mania (Himmelhoch & Garfinkel, 1986; Keller et al, 1986; Secunda et al, 1987), and in fact our data at baseline (see Table 1) indicate greater severity of many variables in the dysphoric group.
A key treatment challenge in bipolar disorder, especially among patients with mixed mania and rapid cycling, is to bring about improvement of symptoms of one mood pole without worsening or accelerating the onset of symptoms of the opposite pole. Ideally, one medication would be employed to treat both mood symptom poles simultaneously. However, so far controlled monotherapy studies have failed to demonstrate that this goal has been achieved, especially in mixed or dysphoric mania. Among the classic mood stabilisers, the body of evidence suggesting antidepressant effects during lithium monotherapy is much less robust than that supporting its antimanic properties, and valproate may be preferable to lithium in the treatment of dysphoric mania (McElroy et al, 1988; Freeman et al, 1992; Swann et al, 1997). For valproate, evidence of efficacy is stronger for manic features than for depressive features of dysphoric mania (Swann et al, 1997). Olanzapine's antimanic properties are well established (Tohen et al, 2000). In addition, olanzapine appears to reduce symptoms of bipolar depression, albeit less effectively when given alone than in combination with fluoxetine (Tohen et al, 2003a). In an earlier study we described the efficacy of olanzapine monotherapy in treating both manic and depressive symptoms in dysphoric and non-dysphoric in-patients (Baker et al, 2003). Olanzapine demonstrated significant improvement in YMRS total score compared with placebo in both dysphoric and non-dysphoric patients, and also produced significant improvement in HRSD total score in the dysphoric group (Baker et al, 2003). This is to our knowledge the only previous placebo-controlled demonstration of simultaneous improvement in depressive and manic symptoms of dysphoric mania during treatment with a single agent. Further study seemed appropriate, however, given that the previous report had important limitations, such as small sample size and non-statistically significant improvement in Maier sub-scale scores.
Our analysis includes effect size calculations. An effect size of 1.0 reflects difference between treatment groups of the same magnitude as 1 standard deviation within the population. This can be translated into a probability statement that indicates that the improvement in score of an average individual in the comparison group exceeds that of 84% of patients in the placebo group. Effect size is a useful tool for comparing findings across studies, and by convention an effect size of 0.2 is considered small, 0.5 moderate and 0.8 or greater large (Cohen, 1988). This study demonstrated a large effect size (1.11) for improvement of depression in patients with baseline dysphoria who received olanzapine in addition to lithium or valproate. Whereas our previous report did not demonstrate clear benefit in terms of Maier core mood sub-scale, this study demonstrated a moderate effect size for this sub-scale (0.61).
Our analyses have several limitations. First, these are post hoc analyses of data from a clinical trial which evaluated severity of manic symptoms (YMRS total score) as the primary efficacy measure. Second, assignment to valproate or lithium was not randomised but reflected the treatment preferences of clinicians and investigators. Third, the study design lacked an olanzapine monotherapy arm, which makes it difficult to draw any conclusions regarding the relative contributions of olanzapine alone, or synergistic effects with the concomitant medication, to the overall treatment benefits. In fact, no inference can be drawn regarding the relative merit of other treatments or combinations that were not evaluated in this trial. For example, improvement on classical antipsychotic agents would be of interest, given that a recent mania treatment comparison of olanzapine and haloperidol did not establish differential treatment response of depressive symptoms among the small (n=19) subgroup with baseline HRSD scores of 20 or over (Tohen et al, 2003b). Fourth, the high proportion of participants in rapid-cycling disorder is notable. A rapid-cycling course may affect mania phenomenology for example, some dysphoric patients may be in transition from mania to depression (Kraepelin, 1921; Himmelhoch et al, 1976; McElroy et al, 1992) and its relationship to dysphoric mania is unclear (Himmelhoch et al, 1976; Post et al, 1989; McElroy et al, 1992). Finally, the subject group of interest (patients with a baseline HRSD total score of 20 or above) was not defined a priori. In this study most dysphoric patients were diagnosed with mixed episodes, but interestingly there was imperfect homology between a DSMIV mixed mania diagnosis and dysphoric mania as defined by rating scales. The DSMIV definition of a mixed manic phase requires patients to simultaneously meet criteria for both a major depressive episode and a manic episode. However, some argue that a DSMIV syndromal approach may not be optimal for identifying patients with mania and clinically important comorbid depressive features (Cassidy et al, 1998; Cassidy & Carroll, 2001; Dilsaver et al, 1999), and a number of proposals have been put forward which attempt to provide a framework within which a diagnosis of dysphoric mania may be made (McElroy et al, 1992; Perugi et al, 1997; Cassidy et al, 2000; Akiskal et al, 2003). These proposals require the presence of a full manic episode, plus the presence of two or three defined depressive symptoms. For the purpose of this study, in which all patients met criteria for a manic episode, we used a threshold HRSD total score of 20 or over to define a group of patients displaying prominent depressive features. We believe that this use of an objective rating scale represents a clinically meaningful approach to identifying subjects. In the context of this clinical trial, the DSMIV and HRSD categorisation systems are somewhat incongruent, with approximately twice the number of patients being identified as mixed as were categorised as dysphoric based on symptom ratings. One potential contribution to the incongruence is that symptom ratings coincided with treatment randomisation, whereas diagnostic verification could have taken place up to a week prior to randomisation. In any case, the dysphoric subgroup primarily included patients with diagnosis of a mixed episode.
In conclusion, our analyses found that olanzapine in combination with either lithium or valproate was effective in improving the severity of depressive symptoms coexisting with acute mania. Furthermore, olanzapine co-therapy with lithium or valproate also demonstrated efficacy in the management of manic symptoms, irrespective of whether such symptoms were complicated by concurrent dysphoria. Given the prognostic implications of dysphoric features in mania, and the limited number of pharmacological options currently available for such patients, prospectively designed studies of combination therapy with mood stabilisers and typical antipsychotics in the management of dysphoric mania are encouraged. Such studies should consider innovative strategies for defining dysphoric mania that transcend the limited perspective of DSMIV mixed states (Perugi et al, 1997; Akiskal et al, 2003).
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Received for publication November 10, 2003. Revision received August 5, 2004. Accepted for publication August 11, 2004.