The effect of deep or sustained remission on maintenance of remission after dose reduction or withdrawal of etanercept in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Tanaka, Yoshiya ^a   Smolen, Josef S ^b   Jones, Heather ^c   Szumski, Annette ^d   Marshall, Lisa ^c   Emery, Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d SYNEOS HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACR EULAR Boolean; Anti TNF; CDAI; DAS28; Dose reduction; Etanercept; Remission; Rheumatoid arthritis; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

ETANERCEPT; METHOTREXATE; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RHEUMATOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAS28; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFECT; EUROPEAN LEAGUE AGAINST RHEUMATISM BOOLEAN CRITERIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREND STUDY; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETANERCEPT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT, HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REMISSION INDUCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 85069269762     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13075-019-1937-4     Document Type: Article

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