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Objective  Chronic migraine ( CM ) is a prevalent and disabling neurological disorder. Phase III REsearch Evaluating Migraine Prophylaxis Therapy ( PREEMPT ) clinical program assessed efficacy and safety of onabotulinumtoxinA ( BOTOX  ® ) for prophylaxis of headaches in adults with  CM . This secondary analysis assessed patients who received all five treatment cycles and completed the study.    Materials and methods   PREEMPT  (two phase III studies: 24‐week double‐blind, placebo‐controlled [ DBPC ], parallel‐group phase, followed by 32‐week open‐label [ OL ] phase) evaluated the efficacy and safety of onabotulinumtoxinA in  CM  (≥15 days/month with headache lasting ≥4 h a day). Patients were randomized (1:1) to onabotulinumtoxinA or placebo every 12 weeks for two cycles, followed by onabotulinumtoxinA for three cycles. Multiple headache symptom measures were evaluated. Results for the completer (five cycles) subgroup of patients are reported.    Results  Of 1384 total  PREEMPT  patients, 1005 received all five treatment cycles (513 received onabotulinumtoxinA only [onabotulinumtoxinA/onabotulinumtoxinA (O/O)] and 492 received two cycles of placebo then three cycles of onabotulinumtoxinA [placebo/onabotulinumtoxinA (P/O)]). Demographics were similar between treatment groups. At Week 56, after all patients were treated with onabotulinumtoxinA, there continued to be significant between‐group differences favoring the O/O vs P/O group for the following headache symptom measures:  LS  mean change from baseline in frequencies of headache days (−12.0 O/O, −11.1 P/O;  P  =   0.035), migraine days (−11.6 O/O, −10.7 P/O;  P  =   0.038), and moderate/severe headache days (−11.0 O/O, −10.1 P/O;  P  =   0.042). For other measures (cumulative hours of headache on headache days, frequency of headache episodes, and percentage with severe Headache Impact Test ( HIT )‐6 score, and total  HIT ‐6 and Migraine‐Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire scores), there were also large mean improvements from baseline. The percent of patients with a ≥50% reduction from baseline in frequency of headache days was significantly greater for the onabotulinumtoxinA‐only group at Week 56 (69.6% O/O, 62.8% P/O;  P  =   0.023). The treatment‐related adverse event rate was 28.5% for onabotulinumtoxinA vs 12.4% for placebo in the  DBPC  phase and 34.8% for patients treated with onabotulinumtoxinA for all five cycles throughout the 56‐week trials.    Conclusions  This subgroup analysis demonstrated improvements with onabotulinumtoxinA treatment (five cycles) vs placebo (two cycles)/onabotulinumtoxinA (three cycles) for multiple headache symptom measures and suggests that at Week 56, patients treated earlier with onabotulinumtoxinA had better outcomes. These findings demonstrate the continued need and cumulative benefit over time with continued prophylaxis, an important and clinically pragmatic observation for clinicians and patients.

acta neurologica scandinavica

OnabotulinumtoxinA for chronic migraine: efficacy, safety, and tolerability in patients who received all five treatment cycles in the  PREEMPT  clinical program