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Sustained Long-Term Retention Rates of Abatacept in Combination with Conventional Synthetic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in Elderly Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

ABSTRACT: Background and Objectives: Treatment for elderly (aged ≥75 years) patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is important because they usually have several complications and organ dysfunction and are more susceptible to drug-related adverse events. Abatacept (ABT) treatment is relatively safe in elderly RA patients; however, the real-world data of efficacy and long-term retention of ABT is sparse in such patients. This study aimed to investigate the clinical efficacy and long-term retention rates of ABT in elderly Japanese RA patients. Materials and Methods: This 10-year retrospective observational cohort study was performed in two centers in Fukushima, Japan. We reviewed the clinical features of elderly RA patients who received ABT and investigated the differences in retention rates with concomitant administration of conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (csDMARDs). Results: The clinical characteristics of younger (<75 years old, 39 cases) and elderly (≥75 years old, 20 cases) RA patients were generally similar. Although the efficacy was also similar, the concomitant administration of csDMARDs with ABT differed between the two groups. Younger patients significantly decreased methotrexate (MTX) administration than elderly patients (p < 0.01), and elderly patients significantly received tacrolimus (TAC) (p < 0.01) or salazosulfapyridine (SASP; p = 0.01) than younger patients. The overall retention and infection-free survival rates were similar between the two groups. Conclusion: Elderly RA patients showed sustained retention rates compared to younger RA patients. TAC and SASP can help to maintain sustained retention rates in elderly RA patients.

SUBMITTER: Sato S

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8469009 | biostudies-literature |

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Project description:ObjectivesBiological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) have shown diminished clinical response following an inadequate response (IR) to ≥1 previous bDMARD. Here, tofacitinib was compared with placebo in patients with an IR to conventional synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs; bDMARD-naive) and in patients with an IR to bDMARDs (bDMARD-IR).MethodsData were taken from phase II and phase III studies of tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Patients received tofacitinib 5 or 10 mg twice daily, or placebo, as monotherapy or with background methotrexate or other csDMARDs. Efficacy endpoints and incidence rates of adverse events (AEs) of special interest were assessed.Results2812 bDMARD-naive and 705 bDMARD-IR patients were analysed. Baseline demographics and disease characteristics were generally similar between treatment groups within subpopulations. Across subpopulations, improvements in efficacy parameters at month 3 were generally significantly greater for both tofacitinib doses versus placebo. Clinical response was numerically greater with bDMARD-naive versus bDMARD-IR patients (overlapping 95% CIs). Rates of safety events of special interest were generally similar between tofacitinib doses and subpopulations; however, patients receiving glucocorticoids had more serious AEs, discontinuations due to AEs, serious infection events and herpes zoster. Numerically greater clinical responses and incidence rates of AEs of special interest were generally reported for tofacitinib 10 mg twice daily versus tofacitinib 5 mg twice daily (overlapping 95% CIs).ConclusionsTofacitinib demonstrated efficacy in both bDMARD-naive and bDMARD-IR patients with RA. Clinical response to tofacitinib was generally numerically greater in bDMARD-naive than bDMARD-IR patients. The safety profile appeared similar between subpopulations.Trial registration numbers(NCT00413660, NCT00550446, NCT00603512, NCT00687193, NCT00960440, NCT00847613, NCT00814307, NCT00856544, NCT00853385).

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