- |||||||||| Journal: Two-year adherence and costs for biologic therapy for rheumatoid arthritis. (Pubmed Central) - Feb 16, 2020
However, further measures (i.e. expanded use of lower-priced biosimilars) are needed to help manage ongoing rises in public spending from increasing numbers of bDMARD recipients. Adherence to the first bDMARD was suboptimal even in effectively treated patients, suggesting opportunities to improve adherence in patients with RA initiating biologics.
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Patients with RA who switched biologic therapy incurred higher 1-year total postswitch healthcare costs compared with patients who were persistent on the index biologic. Healthcare costs were lowest for patients who started on etanercept, particularly those who persisted on etanercept.
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Healthcare costs were lowest for patients who started on etanercept, particularly those who persisted on etanercept. No abstract available
- |||||||||| Journal: Inflammatory bowel disease and targeted oral anti-TNFα therapy. (Pubmed Central) - Jan 31, 2020
Several oral anti-TNFα agents have been investigated with success but are not yet in general clinical use. This partially reflects the fact that the oral administration of antibodies has many barriers including the harsh environment of the GI tract and the presence of enzymes including pepsin, trypsin and chymotrypsin in the intestine which provide significant challenges to targeted oral therapy.
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Journal: Certolizumab (Pubmed Central) - Jan 28, 2020 No abstract available No abstract available
- |||||||||| EVALUATION OF BIOLOGIC TREATMENT PATTERNS AMONG CROHN’S DISEASE PATIENTS USING THREE LARGE UNITED STATES CLAIMS DATABASES () - Jan 28, 2020 - Abstract #DDW2020DDW_3119;
Introduction: Real-world evidence on treatment patterns among Crohn’s disease (CD) patients using biologics remains limited, particularly among ustekinumab (UST) patients...Patients (aged 18-64 years) were required to have ≥1 claim for CD and ≥1 claim for biologics (UST, vedolizumab [VDZ], infliximab [IFX], certolizumab pegol [CZP], or adalimumab [ADA]) during the identification period (IQVIA: 09/26/16-12/31/17; MarketScan: 09/26/16-09/30/17; Optum: 09/26/16-03/31/18)... Among CD patients, unadjusted persistence was numerically higher in the UST cohort with consistent trends in the bio-naïve and bio-experienced subsets.
- |||||||||| TRENDS IN COMMON LABORATORY MARKERS DURING PREGNANCY IN WOMEN WITH QUIESCENT IBD. () - Jan 28, 2020 - Abstract #DDW2020DDW_2179;
Abnormal changes in routinely monitored biomarkers of active inflammation are commonly observed during pregnancy even in women with quiescent IBD. Such findings suggest these changes are common physiologic responses to pregnancy and should be interpreted in the context of clinical symptoms.
- |||||||||| Journal: Management of large-vessel vasculitis. (Pubmed Central) - Jan 17, 2020
Despite recent randomized controlled trials with biologic agents, management of large-vessel vasculitis largely depends on observational studies. Well designed controlled trials using validated outcome measures in large number of patients, identification of biologic markers that could guide the choice of targeted treatments, and standardization of disease assessment including imaging modalities are unmet needs for the management of large-vessel vasculitis.
- |||||||||| Enrollment change, Trial primary completion date: Dose Reduction for Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients With Low Disease Activity (clinicaltrials.gov) - Jan 14, 2020
P4, N=30, Recruiting, Well designed controlled trials using validated outcome measures in large number of patients, identification of biologic markers that could guide the choice of targeted treatments, and standardization of disease assessment including imaging modalities are unmet needs for the management of large-vessel vasculitis. N=500 --> 30 | Trial primary completion date: Jun 2020 --> Mar 2021
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Journal: Anti-TNF, a magic bullet in cancer immunotherapy? (Pubmed Central) - Jan 11, 2020 These include colitis, which can be treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibodies such as Infliximab...Herein, (i) we discuss the scientific rationale for combining anti-TNF and ICB in cancer patients, (ii) comment on the paper published by Badran et al. and (iii) provide the TICIMEL clinical trial design.
- |||||||||| Prevalence association between HPV and fistulising perianal Crohn’s disease (Hall C - Poster exhibition) - Jan 7, 2020 - Abstract #ECCOIBD2020ECCO_IBD_1672;
The subtypes more frequently identified were HPV-11 (15.5%), HPV-16 (8.9%) and HPV-53 (6.7%).Conclusion This study shows a high point-prevalence of HPV, specially high-risk subtypes in fistulising PCD population. More studies are necessary to define a screening for cancer in this population.
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