■最近批准的药物的适应症明显少于多年前批准的药物。一个可能的原因可能是,控制自批准或启动以来的年数,最近批准的药物有较少的适应症(例如在上市时)。精准医疗和个性化医疗的作用越来越大,精准医学的目标是提供更精确的预防方法,疾病的诊断和治疗。具有较少适应症的药物可能比具有许多适应症的药物“更精确”。
我们使用来自法国和美国两个国家的不同类型的数据来分析许多药物之间的关系,该药物的年份——即药物首次上市或批准的年份——以及它的年龄——它已经上市的年数。
■两国的所有证据都表明,控制药物年龄,与多年前批准的药物相比,最近批准的药物往往具有更少的适应症。在美国,年份的10年增长与所有药物的有效适应症数量下降10.7%有关,1989年后批准的药物的有效适应症数量下降了19.4%。在法国,药物年龄增加对适应症数量的积极影响被药物年份增加的负面影响所抵消。
最近批准的药物与旧药物相比,不太可能是“通用技术”(甚至是多用途技术)。近几十年来,“精准医学”的相对重要性有所增加。具有较少适应症的药物可能比具有许多适应症的药物“更精确”。
UNASSIGNED: More recently approved drugs have significantly fewer indications than drugs approved many years ago. One possible reason for this may be that, controlling for the number of years since approval or launch, more recently approved drugs have fewer indications (e.g. at the time of launch). The role of precision and personalised medicine has increased, and the goal of precision medicine is to provide a more precise approach for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Drugs that have fewer indications may be \'more precise\' than drugs that have many indications.
UNASSIGNED: We use different kinds of data from two countries - France and the U.S. - to analyze the relationship across many drugs between the number of indications of a drug, the drug\'s vintage - i.e. the year in which the drug was first marketed or approved - and its age - the number of years it has been marketed.
UNASSIGNED: All the evidence from both countries indicates that, controlling for drug age, more recently approved drugs tend to have fewer indications than drugs approved many years ago. In the U.S., a 10-year increase in vintage is associated with a 10.7% decline in the effective number of indications of all drugs, and a 19.4% decline in the effective number of indications of drugs approved after 1989. In France, the positive effect on the number of indications of the increase in drug age was more than offset by the negative effect of the increase in drug vintage.
UNASSIGNED: More recently approved drugs are less likely to be \'general-purpose technologies\' (or even multi-purpose technologies) than older drugs. The relative importance of \'precision medicine\' has increased in recent decades. Drugs that have fewer indications may be \'more precise\' than drugs that have many indications.