1. Comparison of joint destruction between standard- and low-dose etanercept in rheumatoid arthritis from the Prevention of Cartilage Destruction by Etanercept (PRECEPT) study.
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Tada, Masahiro, Koike, Tatsuya, Okano, Tadashi, Sugioka, Yuko, Wakitani, Shigeyuki, Fukushima, Kenzo, Sakawa, Akira, Uehara, Kazunori, Inui, Kentaro, and Nakamura, Hiroaki
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ACADEMIC medical centers ,ANALYSIS of covariance ,BIOMARKERS ,BLOOD testing ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,DIAGNOSTIC imaging ,DOSE-response relationship in biochemistry ,FISHER exact test ,LONGITUDINAL method ,MULTIVARIATE analysis ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,RHEUMATOID arthritis ,STATISTICS ,TUMOR necrosis factors ,U-statistics ,LOGISTIC regression analysis ,DATA analysis ,ETANERCEPT ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials ,INTER-observer reliability ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,CHEMICAL inhibitors - Abstract
Objective. To evaluate the prevention of joint destruction and clinical efficacy of low-dose etanercept (ETN) (25 mg/week) compared with standard-dose ETN (50 mg/week) in RA.Methods. In this prospective, randomized, open-label study, 70 patients were assigned to receive ETN at either 50 or 25 mg/week for 52 weeks. The primary endpoint was the variation in modified total Sharp score (mTSS), and secondary endpoints were variations in disease activity score in 28 joints (DAS-28), modified HAQ and adverse event rate. Values of mTSS were calculated at baseline and after 52 weeks. Non-progression was estimated as ΔmTSS ≤0.5, and the non-progression rate was compared between groups.Results. Mean values at baseline were as follows: disease duration 9.2 years; DAS-28 5.45; and annual progression of mTSS 26.1. No significant differences in background were seen between groups. At 52 weeks, the non-progression rate was significantly less in the 25 mg/week group (36.7%) than in the 50 mg/week group (67.7%) (P = 0.041). Mean ΔmTSS was higher at 25 mg/week (1.03) than at 50 mg/week (−0.13). DAS-28 was significantly improved at 4 weeks, and the effect of treatment lasted for 52 weeks in both groups. No differences in adverse event rates were seen between groups.Conclusion. Low-dose ETN is not inferior to standard-dose ETN in terms of effects on clinical manifestations. However, in terms of the radiographic non-progression rate, the effects of low-dose ETN may be inferior to the effects of standard-dose ETN.Trial Registration: UMIN Clinical Trials Registry, http://www.umin.ac.jp/ctr/, UMIN000001798. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2012
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