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Professor Andrea Cipriani Thank you. Thank you very much for the invitation and the kind introduction. Can you hear me well? Professor Bernadka Dubicka Yes. Professor Andrea Cipriani Yeah, okay. So, I will present something that we have done over the past few years and trying to contextualise in the child and adolescent population, also, the experience we had in the adult population, and this is my main conflict of interest. I’m an Adult Psychiatrist, so I’ll try to bring as much as I can to the party today, but I’m here more to learn than to actually present.
This is my conflict of interest and the acknowledgement. As you said, I’m funded mainly by the NIHR and the Wellcome Trust. So, I’ll crack on with one important aspect. I’m a Clinician and I see patients every week in the clinic, and it was very important for me to read, about ten years ago now, this paper published in Journal Internal Medicine. It’s a systematic review and they collected all the information about what are the most important question for patients? It’s interesting to see that the top one is, “What is the drug of choice for” that specific “condition?” So, identifying the best intervention for each patient is actually one of the most important thing that patients ask us to do.
The second point is, okay, in order to make this decision, we need to be evidence-based, and what is the support that evidence synthesis can give us? This is one typical hierarchy of evidence, the pyramid, these made by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford, but there’s plenty of examples and they’re mainly identical. Level one is, of course, a randomised controlled trial, and I think the nice thing of this hierarchy is that they – within each level, they break down different types of evidence, depending on the question. For what we are interested in today, which is identifying the best treatments, the first one is therapy, is what we are going to focus on.
So, level one is randomised controlled trial, and they divide a and b, because 1a is a systematic review of RCT, so a collection of trials, 1b is an individual study. Level two is cohort studies or observational studies, again divided into a and b, depending on the – whether it’s just one study or a systematic review of studies. And this is what we teach medical students, but actually, as a Clinician, I don’t entirely agree with this, because the problem is, nowadays, we have a huge amount of information on the internet, in the literature, so how can we make sense of all this large body of evidence? We need something more innovative.
And this is a real example from a systematic review published, again, 15 years ago, but the point here is this is a very good review published in a good journal, by a very good team of Researchers. The point is not the methodology here in – per se. Is more how we can use this data, and the example outside, if you want, mental health, is on purpose, so it can apply – can be applied to everything. So, “Safety and Effectiveness of Different Methods of Earwax Removal.” And if we go straight into the ‘Results’ section of the abstract and we summarise the findings, this is what we find. “On measures of wax clearance, Cerumol, sodium bicarbonate, olive oil and water are all more effective than no treatment.” Second finding, “TP is better than olive oil.” Third, “Wet irrigation is better than dry irrigation.” Fourth, “Sodium bicarbonate drops followed by irrigation by Nurse is more effective than sodium bicarbonate drops followed by self-irrigation.” So, we have this long list of results, but they don’t really help the clinical decision-making, because what we need to know, and patients want to know, is how big – what is the ranking of the different options and how big are these differences? So, standard or pairwise meta-analysis don’t really help, because this is an example of one systematic review and meta-analysis. On the left you have a pooled estimate of a group of studies comparing Treatment A versus placebo, for instance, and then, you have a completely different set of studies comparing B versus placebo, another systematic review and meta-analysis. So, what if my question is comparing A versus B? In this case, there’s no evidence. I can’t compare directly Treatment A versus B.
So, a relatively new methodology called network meta-analysis, or multiple treatments meta-analysis, allows to compare interventions that have not been compared directly. How? Well, because group one of studies has placebo, which is incumbent with the second group of studies. So, if we use this common treatment, we can compare indirectly A versus B via placebo. And, of course, it’s crucial to understand this point – apology, it’s a bit of methodological section at the beginning, but I always do these talks, mainly because we need to be very critical about the evidence which is presented. So, the key point of the placebo in Group 1 and placebo in Group 2 is they have to be similar enough to be combined. And this is a big issue in evidence synthesis, because often, the Researchers combine things that are – should – cannot be combined, and this is a violation of an assumption called transitivity, which has to hold in these kind of study designs.
So, how can we use these technique network meta-analysis? This is an example from the adult literature, The Lancet paper we published in 2009, where you can see that we have this network of treatment. And the size of each node is proportional to the number of patients randomised to each drug, and the lines represent the direct trial, comparing two interventions, and the width of the line is proportional to the number of trials. So, many studies comparing sertraline with fluoxetine and many patients randomised to fluoxetine. However, there are no studies comparing reboxetine with mirtazapine. So, what we can do is to calculate the indirect evidence reboxetine-mirtazapine via a common comparator, like fluoxetine. So, we fill the gaps in the network.
The other important thing is when we have an existing direct comparison, like sertraline-fluoxetine, we can use the network to compare this direct evidence with the indirect evidence, sertraline-fluoxetine, via a common comparator like venlafaxine. And I can do this with all the loops in the network, via citalopram, via fluvoxamine and so on. So, it’s important because this is what we call consistency, the direct and the indirect evidence. Let me give you an example. If I tell you that sertraline is better than fluoxetine and fluoxetine is better than paroxetine, what you expect is that sertraline is also better than paroxetine. If this is the case, the loop is consistent or coherent. Now, sometimes in the evidence, we have the direct evidence of sertraline-paroxetine actually says that sertraline is worse than paroxetine. In this case, the loop is inconsistent or incoherent. And that’s another key information to check in the network meta-analysis to understand whether the results are reliable.
So, what – these are the advantages of network meta-analysis. Comparing interventions which haven’t been compared directly. Use all available data. Improve precision, because you increase the number of patients in each comparison, but also, we can rank treatment from the top to the bottom. How do we do it? Using the results of the direct and indirect comparison, we can calculate, we can estimate for each treatment, which is the probability of being the best? In this fictional network, we have only four treatments, for simplicity, and that probability is for Treatment A – sorry, to be the best, is for Treatment A 25%, 50% B, 25% C, zero D. So, it’s easy to say that B is number one.
And we do this for each position. So, for position two, again, we have 25, 25, 50% for C and zero for D, so C is clearly number two. Third position, 25, 25, 25, 25. So, it’s impossible to say what is the best if we look at the actual probability of being the third, but if we look at the cumulative probabilities to be among the best three, we have 75% for A, 100% for B, 100% for C, only 25 for D. For this reason, A is the third and D is the fourth, and this is confirmed by the 70% probability for D to be the fourth treatment.
So, we can rank treatment and we can do nice things like this. This is, again, the 2009 Lancet paper, and what we wanted to do, we wanted to plot the – for each drug, what was the probability of being – sorry, we don’t have the numbers here, like, first, second, third. We have 12 drugs, and this is the probability. So, you can visually see for efficacy the solid red line in acceptability, dropout rate, discontinuation rate. The dotted blue line, that some drugs, this is in adults, for depression in adults, some drugs like paroxetine are clearly not the top treatment, the best treatment. Sertraline is much better. Oh, citalopram is interesting, because it’s well tolerated but not very efficacious, the opposite as opposed to venlafaxine. So, you can really get more information if you use network meta-analysis.
Okay, so, that’s the end of the methodological section. I promised, in my abstract, to look at the most recent network meta-analysis in the field comparing antidepressants for depression in kids – in children/adolescent. And this is the latest network meta-analysis, published a couple of years ago. It’s in Chinese. The reason why I will not cover this is because, actually, the paper we did in 2016, published in The Lancet, is still, I think, the reference. There’s another Cochrane Review that I’ll mention at the end, but I want to start the presentation starting from the 2016 Lancet paper, which is this one that we did comparing all antidepressant in a network meta-analysis that were trialled in children and adolescents.
This is the search – the PRISMA flow chart, to summarise the search strategy and what we, in the end, found. We started with about 6,000 records and we also checked about 2,500 of unpublished data from drug registries. And at the end of the process, we managed to include 31 publication, corresponding to 34 randomised controlled trial and 40 pairs of investigations. And what is important here, as a first take home message for you, is that we have very few trials for the great, great majority of comparisons. So, we only have ten studies for fluoxetine, but for the others, except paroxetine with five, it ranges between one, two and three. So, it’s a very small amount of evidence.
The second point is the comparisons are mainly with placebo. So, the majority of the drugs in the network do not have head-to-head comparisons. So, I expect the shape of the network, that I’ll show you in a second, to be less connected. Is more like a star-shaped network, where we have the placebo in the middle, with all the drugs connected directly with trials, and less, or very few, head-to-head comparisons. This is the list of the studies that we identified, just to show that these are the doses and that also, the sample size of the in vivo studies not great in terms of large sample.
And this is the network. So, we have placebo, very big, because it’s the most frequent comparator, and all the drugs are compared with placebo, but only a few are compared head-to-head. Duloxetine is compared with fluoxetine. That’s one of the few head-to-head comparison. Fluoxetine is compared with nortriptyline and venlafaxine. Sorry, no, we have Clomipramine, which is the drug without a placebo controlled trial. So, there’s no line between Clomipramine. It’s connected directly only with paroxetine. So, all this to say that the results of this network meta-analysis should be taken with great caution, because the lack of a connected network means that we are not able to check the consistency of the network and the findings. Hence, we cannot check direct versus indirect evidence and the results are less robust, if you want.
This is a bit complicated, a busy slide, but it’s an important piece of analysis standard in any meta-analysis, because this shows all the comparisons for, in this case, two outcomes in one go. On the bottom left triangle, in blue, we have efficacy measure as change in symptoms, using a standardised mean difference, so combining different scales into an effect size. While for that right, top right triangle, we have discontinuation rate, what we called tolerability, because it’s discontinuation due to adverse events.
In the middle, we have all the drugs and placebo in order, like a ranked base, on – from the best to the worst, which means that in this case, at the top left, we have fluoxetine, it is because it’s the drug with the best ranking, as opposed to all the others, because we are comparing everything with everything. How to read it is column versus row. So, if we take fluoxetine and we go down three cells from the bottom, we have -0.51. If you go to the right, that’s the estimate fluoxetine versus placebo. And the estimate is highlighted in bold because it’s statistically significant. It ranges between -99 to -03.
Two important consideration. If you take this line, this, sorry, this row, the only highlighted and bold result is for fluoxetine. So, based on the 2016 network meta-analysis, only fluoxetine was better than placebo. And the other examples are here, if you look in terms of tolerability, there are a few differences, but there are not that many differences between antidepressant in terms of efficacy and tolerability, and fluoxetine is clearly the best antidepressant in this case. And nortriptyline is worse than everything else, it’s at the bottom. We don’t have data about tolerability for nortriptyline.
The other important consideration to contextualise the result is the confidence interval. So, it’s true that fluoxetine is statistically significantly better than placebo, but the true value is between 0.03 to 0.99. So, it’s a large uncertainty around the estimate. The best bet is .51, which is a relatively moderate effect, what we say. However, the true value ranges between, basically, no effect to a very substantial effect. And this is important to understand in terms of interpretation because this may be related to the heterogeneity of the studies, but may be also linked to the heterogeneity of the individual patient who may respond or not to that specific drug.
And this is also raising an issue that we should always remember, which is that it makes sense to combine many treatments in the same network meta-analysis, especially are we combining pharmacological with non-pharmacological treatment together? Because the study design is different, intervention is different, and the population may be different. So, that’s a big question mark that we need to assess every time we start in a project like this. So, in this case, we only included pharmacological treatment.
This is for another outcome, which is suicidality, and we only have one outcome. And you can see that venlafaxine is clearly the worst in terms of the effect. In this case, it is odds ratio, so it’s dichotomous outcome, having suicidal behaviour or ideation. So, it’s not committed, completed suicide, but again, the data are quite striking supporting that venlafaxine is clearly worse, as opposed to all other drugs.
And then, I wanted, also, to show you the absent number, because here, we report the relative effects, but if we look at the absolute numbers, we have very few trial, reporting very few events. So, in terms of how frequent is this event clinically, of course, we are talking about a rare event, but if we look at the comparative data, it looks like there are differences between antidepressants.
Okay, I know we have only 30 minutes, so I’ll move to the next publication, about the same topic, which is this Cochrane Review done by Sarah Hetrick and the team, the Cochrane team, across Australia and the UK, and New Zealand, of course. And they did something similar, but not identical, and my take home message from this review, oh, they didn’t include all the drugs that we included in our paper, and they also looked at the change in symptoms on the CDRS scale. So, they didn’t look at standardised mean differences. They really wanted to look at the mean difference, the change in that – on that specific rating scale, which means they use fewer data and fewer studies.
This is the network for the first – for the primary outcome, for the CDRS scale. You see it’s very similar to what we had for our 2016 network meta-analysis. There are new drugs like desvenlafaxine, which was not included ten years ago in The Lancet, because we didn’t have data about this drug. But all the other drugs are, basically, the same, normal study as opposed to our review. And even if we have fewer studies and if we have a different network, in the end, the results are very similar, where fluoxetine is still the best antidepressant. They also measure response rate and remission, but you see the data are so sparse that we don’t have anything relevant.
Sorry, am I finished in terms of time [pause]? Oh, good, because I wanted to briefly mention the meta-review that we did more recently, even though it is now five years ago, where we wanted to look at the effect of antidepressants across different population of patients with child and – children and adolescent with mental health disorders. And we looked specifically at the effects of the different antidepressants across different disorders. This is the flow chart, because we – rather than looking at individual studies, we look at systematic reviews. The quality of the individual studies is not great, as we said at the beginning. The quality of the systematic review is very similar.
So, we included 11 systematic review and meta-analy – and network meta-analysis, of course, but the quality varies from low or critically low, to moderate. So, again, all this has to be interpreted with a pinch of salt. And in the end, even if the amount of evidence is very low, we found something interesting. We still found that fluoxetine is – was the best treatment for, on average, a patient with major depression. While we found some promising data for anxiety about fluvoxamine and paroxetine, and in terms of OCD, fluoxetine and sertraline perform better. Antidepressants, basically, didn’t really materially change symptoms in ADHD. While we find – found something about some drugs, like Clomipramine, in people with autism, and nothing really for PTSD and anuresis. So, inter-drug tolerability is, basically, what we just said was about suicidal.
So, in terms of this amount of data, I think there are still reasons to think that antidepressant can play a role, but the effect of this medication in this population, even if present, is limited. But why is this? Is it because they really don’t work, or is it because we are missing a trick? And I want to tell you what we are trying to do in the adults, and I hope that this will possibly open a line of collaboration, because the big problem of all this network meta-analysis and evidence synthesis is we use averages. We use a, sort of, median effect that is not really what we see in patients. So, we have developed this project in adult depression, but I hope to replicate in other fields, and I know that Professor Cortese is doing this for ADHD, so the field is expanding, also, to adolescent psychiatry.
PETRUSHKA, in his personalised antidepressant treatment for unipolar depression combining individual choices, risks and big data in adults. And what we did was to use data from the randomised trial at the individual patient level. So, we identify the characteristics, clinical and demographic characteristics. We combine them with real-world data. So, we moved from relative effects to absolute prediction, probabilities of responding or having a specific adverse event, and then, we also, incorporate patient preferences, which is the third big pillar in order to personalise treatment. We develop with the web-based algorithm and now we are testing the algorithm in a trial, which is in the UK, in Canada and also, in Brazil.
This is the algorithm. It’s password protected and patients and Clinicians go through this list of adverse events and they choose the best antidepressant for them, and thus, the visualisation that we developed with patients at the end, and for the trial, we have three options, with a Tripadvisor like score to show how strong we recommend this antidepressant. But then, below, we have a breakdown of the specific adverse events that matter the most to the patient and we can tell then, predict which is the absolute probability of having this side effect.
The study won the award last year from the NIHR and we are very proud of this, and really hope that this can be the direction of travel, also, for the field in child and adolescent psychiatry. Thank you very much. Professor Bernadka Dubicka Now I don’t know who came up with that, but it’s certainly very ingenious, ‘cause that can be a huge challenge. So, lots of interesting things to pick up there. We’ve got time for questions. There’s one already here for you. Please – other people, do please put questions in for us. So, the first question is from Shermin Imran. Her question is around “variability and response to antidepressants and whether this could be related to pharmacogenetic factors?” Is that something you can comment on?
Professor Andrea Cipriani Absolutely. Very good question. Yes, in fact, we just submitted a proposal with a funder to do PETRUSHKA 2, incorporating exactly the pharmacogenetic information. Yes, so we have data – I mean, I’m talking about the adult literature, but I think this applies, of course, to young people, to some extent. So, we know that the pharmacogenetic is really important, not only in terms of the viability, for instance, metabolic, fast metabolisers, low metaboliser, because we know that we have very few people who are fast metaboliser, very few people who are strong metaboliser, and the majority find them in the middle. But also, because we now have data about the side effect profile of some medication. We have data now, also, about the microbiome and how this interact with the pharmacogenetics.
So, the field is evolving and very recently, a few months ago, there are new guidelines from the Pharmacogenetic Assoc – Worldwide Association which are very useful to build this, sort of, matrix about the drugs and the potential interaction. We also may find individual deletion or genetic alterations that can be very, very informative how not to prescribe this drug, or the combination of different medications.
But the other important thing I would like to develop in the genetic field, and I’m work – I’m not an expert, so I’m working with people across the globe, is not only the pharmacogenetic variations, but also, I’d like to use polygenic risk scores in clinical practice. That’s my dream, because when – especially when we see the patients with depression, we don’t know whether they will become bipolar, schizoaffective, so having this tool will help the treatment plan, but also, it’s a fantastic way to empower patients in the shared decision-making process. Because when we have the polygenic score, it is a score, so it’s nothing causal. We are not certain, but this forces the Clinicians to discuss with the patient and involve them in the shared decision-making process, which is the real reason why we did PETRUSHKA initially.
I know for kids, it’s more complicated because you have the parents and everything else, but I think this is in the direction of travel, having evidence-based scores that can inform the shared decision-making process. Professor Bernadka Dubicka Good, it’s good to have a dream, Andrea. I hope we manage to get towards your dream in the not too distant future. The questions are all coming in. I’m going to pick one here that I was actually thinking of asking you, as well, and it’s something that’s not talked about enough in older adolescents and in particular, in young people, but it’s something that is talked about in the media and amongst young people on social media, and that’s regarding ‘sexual dysfunction’. And obviously, that’s something that’s very important to young people, but it isn’t discussed sufficiently, and so, I’d just like any comments that you might have on that. And I don’t think it’s brought up as a adverse effect when you look at these trials, either. Obviously, for younger children, it’s not appropriate, necessarily, to ask those questions, but it’s a really important fact – you know, really important aspect of young people’s lives, isn’t it?
Professor Andrea Cipriani Absolutely, and yes, again, I don’t have experience in treating kids, but I – in my clinic, I see people from 14/15/16, depending, because we are trying to combine not having artificial barriers in terms of age. So, yes, the sexual dysfunction is very important, as you say, not just during the treatment, but also, maybe post. It’s very difficult to disentangle the mood aspects from the biological aspects, but it’s always a discussion that we do in the clinic. It’s not just about suicide, which was initially a taboo. Now discussing sexual dysfunction and – is especially important, and not just for men, but also for women.
In terms of sharing my clinical experience, I raise this all the time, but I realise that there are very important cultural issues around this, because now that the – we – especially because we are doing the trial now in Nigeria, in Pakistan, so I was exposed to this cultural adaptation, is one, how do you define it, so the words you use to explain the side effect? And also, how you discuss it, because maybe it’s not just about religious or cultural failings, but for instance, in Pakistan, all the shared decision-making is done with – or in India, involving the family. And, of course, it’s important to have this discussion in an informative way, but also not to put the person in a difficult position. So, it’s a very complex thing, has to be mentioned, also in terms of risk, but I would also be careful in saying we don’t have enough data, mainly because it’s a neglected area. So, we really need better quality information.
Professor Bernadka Dubicka No, and we really do and thanks for, you know, sort of, starting that discussion. So, I really urge Clinicians to think about it in their consultations, as well, and prescribing. I’m just going to just expand that question a little bit further, because one of my concerns is that, you know, we see children and young people relatively early on, compared to, you know, sort of, their adult trajectory with depression and antidepressants, and often, you know, we see young people who maybe have had chronic anxiety for a long time, particularly if they’re autistic. You might start them on an antidepressant/anti-anxiolytic, but then, the issue of dependency concerns me greatly, particularly when you’re starting these antidepressants quite early on. And often, there never seems to be a good time to stop because they’ve got one milestone after another, exams or transitioning to uni. And again, I think, we don’t have much data, do we, in terms of long-term impacts on young people, and particularly around the issue of dependency, which has been talked about a lot more in adults? I don’t know if you wanted to comment on that?
Professor Andrea Cipriani Yes, absolutely. As you say, the big problem is the scarcity of data, and this is why, again, what we try to do with adults is – but it’s the same for kids, is trying to use other sources of information, like the observational data. Because RCT, randomised data, are very good for comparative – com – for comparisons, but if you want to observe what happens over time, now that we have a lot of registries, a lot of population databases, population level databases, that’s very, very important to use.
In terms of the dependency and things, of course, it’s a mixture of pharmacological effect and of psychological. As you say, there’s – maybe that some person is never the right moment to try and stop. I tend to suggest, or to say at the beginning, that “It’s likely – the benefit is a – for a long-term treatment, but it doesn’t necessarily mean for life.” And, of course, the other important thing is “not to take the decision based on how you feel now, but also decide if things go well, over the next few months, I will do this or that,” of course.
The other important thing that now has been emphasised by many, many people is the tapering off of the medication. Of course, it is a very personal experience, but in my clinic, the longer people have been taking the medication, the longer is the tapering off. So – and it can take months, because then, the person gets familiar with the situation and they – it’s not the main event, in one – in two weeks, I taper off the medication. So, I think these, kind of, practical things, but as you said, it’s crucial to have more information, and also of the risks of this medication, they’re known.
Professor Bernadka Dubicka Yes. Professor Andrea Cipriani Yeah. Professor Bernadka Dubicka And we’ve got another question, which also relates to something I was thinking about, and that is how you make clinical decisions when there’s comorbidity. And that relates to a question I was thinking about, you – I mean, you’re very well aware that the trials are very limited and one of my concerns has been about you talked about the difficulty of combining some of these findings, but one of the issues is combining the populations that were studied. As you’re aware, a lot of them were done in the States, they’re not necessarily applicable to NHS clinical population. The lev – and in particular, around a level of severity and the sorts of young people we might decide to prescribe here in the UK and maybe other countries, other than the States. So, just any comments you have in terms of how do Clinicians make decisions around who to prescribe to in terms of complexity and comorbidity, based on the limited data that we have?
Professor Andrea Cipriani Yes, yeah, exact – yes, that’s a very good point, also, the what we call the external validity and how generalisable are the results to the population of people we see in the clinic? I have to say that that’s true and unfortunately, I think the response that we, as Clinicians, tend to have is based on our experience and we try to be on the safe side. The example is, again, it’s taken from the adult literature, but 85% of the prescription of antidepressants are about three drugs. So, if we could involve the patients in the shared decision-making process, automatically we move out of our comfort zone, but at the same time, we share the responsibility.
And we need also – well, this is what I do in the clinic, I share with the patients the uncertainty, because I like to present numbers as much as possible, but with also the uncertainty around the estimate. So, you have a 30% probability of responding, but the true can be ten to 50%, for instance. This is why we need to move from these averages to the individual patient, and we have great examples outside mental health. Nowadays, all GPs use QRISK for the cardiac risk, in order to decide whether to prescribe or not a statin. So, it’s very often used outside mental health. So, we need to bridge this gap.
Professor Bernadka Dubicka Thank you, and raising a really important point and making – the joint decision-making and fully informing young people in those decisions based on the evidence available. Right, so we have a couple of – literally two minutes left and for me to wrap up, as well. So, two questions and very quick bullet point answers. First question is, “NICE focuses on three SSRIs for young people. If two SSRIs have failed, should we consider duloxetine as the third next, yes or no?” Professor Andrea Cipriani I would, yes, yes, definitely. I mean, the guidelines are a tool to help the clinical decision, but I mean, you can feel seeing the patients, whether there’s any point insisting with an SSRI or change it. So, I strongly defend the freedom of the clinical judgment, as long as you share the decision and you explain to patients, because they may go and look at the NICE guidelines and challenge your decision. But absolutely, yes.
Professor Bernadka Dubicka And I don’t think that’s something that we probably use very often in practice, but something to consider. And the very la – we’ve got one minute to go, so a very last question. I don’t quite understand it, but it’s the issues around “teenagers with poor diets and microbiomes,” and I don’t know how that relates to antidepressants. I don’t know if that’s something you can comment on or not. Professor Andrea Cipriani Yes, yes. So, of course, it is related to diet. It’s more related to drugs. So, for instance, if you take an antibiotic, this changes your microbiome. The good thing is that we are now developing treatments, also like to reset the microbiome and also, you have a tablet with a healthy microbiome. So, it is more complex than the diet, but definitely the diet can have an influence. So, at the moment, it’s still early days, because at the moment, the microbiome can be a big hype or can be something real. I’m more keen to think the latter, so I still think there’s a lot that we need to discover about the bacteria in our gut, but it’s too early days to tell how to do it.
Professor Bernadka Dubicka Thank you, and I think on that note, we’re coming to an end, but I think that would be an excellent topic for a future conference around nutrition and mental health in children and young people. So, thank you for raising that question and all the other questions that people have brought to us. And thank you, again, Andrea, for a really interesting talk.