New Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatments for 'Old' Patients: Results of a Systematic Review.
Adv Ther
; 37(9): 3676-3691, 2020 09.
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| ID: mdl-32705531
In the last 20 years, new treatments and a new treatment approach (called treat-to-target) have been introduced for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Consequently, the characteristics of patients with RA participating in clinical trials of the newest therapies should have changed compared with those of patients who participated in clinical trials of older therapies. This is important as patient characteristics may influence patients' response to drug treatment. To determine whether characteristics of patients with RA have changed over time, we compared the baseline characteristics (e.g. age, gender, disease duration, measures of disease activity, and pain scores) of patients with RA between 22 clinical trials published in 19992009 and 18 published in 20102017. No significant difference between the two timeframes and no obvious trend over time were observed for any baseline characteristic of patients with RA, including physician and patient measures of disease activity, and patient measures of physical function and pain. Thus, the baseline characteristics of patients with RA participating in clinical trials do not appear to have changed in the last decade despite the introduction of new treatments and the treat-to-target approach. Further research is needed to determine the impact of baseline patient characteristics on patients' response to RA treatments.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Artrite Reumatoide
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Antirreumáticos
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Terapias em Estudo
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Prognostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Adv Ther
Assunto da revista:
TERAPEUTICA
Ano de publicação:
2020
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Itália
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos