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Intentional Self-Harm Following Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RA) Use in Patients with Diabetes: An Inverse Probability of Treatment Weighting Analysis

    Basic Details
    Date Posted
    Status
    In progress
    Medical Product
    glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists
    Health Outcome(s)
    intentional self-harm
    Description

    This analysis evaluates the association between glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2), or dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4) and intentional self-harm in individuals with evidence of diabetes, or diabetes and obesity, in the Sentinel Distributed Database (SDD). In this report, we identified individuals with incident use of GLP-1 RA (exposure), SGLT-2i (comparator), or DPP-4 (comparator), and we evaluated the association between these products and intentional self-harm using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) to adjust for confounding.

    The study period includes data from October 1, 2015, to September 30, 2023. We distributed this request to ten Sentinel Data Partners on May 1, 2024.

    The analytic packages associated with this analysis can be found externally in Sentinel's Git Repository located here. The Git Repository serves as Sentinel's version control tracking system for analytic packages and technical documentation.