Open Journal of Psychiatry, 2014, 4, 131-140 Published Online April 2014 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojpsych http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpsych.2014.42017 Safety and Tolerability of Edivoxetine for Long-Term Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in Adult Patients Tina M. Oakes1*, James M. Martinez1, Mary Anne Dellva1, Celine Goldberger1, Beth A. Pangallo1, Mark E. Bangs1, Jonna Ahl1, William B. White2 1Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, USA 2University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, USA Email: *
[email protected] Received 13 March 2014; revised 7 April 2014; accepted 14 April 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract This 12-month open-label, but dose-blinded extension phase, evaluated the safety and tolerability of flexibly-dosed edivoxetine (6, 9, 12 or 18 mg once daily) in patients (N = 397) with major de- pressive disorder, who completed the 10-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled acute phase of the study. All patients were treated with edivoxetine during the extension phase. The mean age of the patients was 45 years, and most were white females. Safety evaluations in- cluded assessment of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAEs), laboratory and vital sign mea- sures, and suicidality. Within-group t-tests based on a 2-sided significance level of 0.05 and 95% confidence levels were used to assess whether changes from baseline were statistically significant from zero. The overall completion rate was 54%. Adverse event was the most common (14.4%) reason for discontinuation, which included blood pressure increased (1.3%), heart rate increased (1.3%), anxiety (1.0%), and tachycardia (1.0%).