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Efficacy and safety of monotherapy with sirukumab compared with adalimumab monotherapy in biologic-naïve patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (SIRROUND-H): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, multinational, 52-week, phase 3 study
Abstract
Objective This randomised, double-blind, parallel-group, phase 3 study compared monotherapy with sirukumab, an anti-interleukin-6 cytokine monoclonal antibody, with adalimumab monotherapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods Biologic-naïve patients with active RA who were inadequate responders or were intolerant to, or inappropriate for, methotrexate were randomised to subcutaneous sirukumab 100 mg every 2 weeks (n=187), sirukumab 50 mg every 4 weeks (n=186) or adalimumab 40 mg every 2 weeks (n=186). Primary endpoints at week 24 were change from baseline in Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) using erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and proportion of patients achieving an American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 50 response; these endpoints were tested in sequential order. This study is registered at EudraCT (number: 2013-001417-32) and ClinicalTrials.gov (number: NCT02019472). Results Significantly greater improvements from baseline in mean (SD) DAS28 (ESR) were observed at week 24 with sirukumab 100 mg every 2 weeks (-2.96 (1.580)) versus adalimumab 40 mg every 2 weeks (-2.19 (1.437); P Conclusion Sirukumab monotherapy showed greater improvements in DAS28 (ESR), but similar ACR50 response rates, versus adalimumab monotherapy.
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“sirukumab and adalimumab were comparable in efficacy”
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“A study of sirukumab monotherapy (n = 373) compared with adalimumab monotherapy (n = 186) showed the occurrence of deaths in the sirukumab arms (four patients died) but not in the adalimumab arm through 68 weeks raised safety concerns, and health authorities requested additional clinical data”
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- Taylor, P. C., Schiff, M. H., Wang, Q., Jiang, Y., Zhuang, Y., Kurrasch, R., Daga, S., Rao, R., Tak, P. P., & Hsu, B.
- Venue
- Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
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- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-05
- Volume
- 77
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 658-666
- ISSN
- 0003-4967
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- 28
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- 27
- Language
- en
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- Janssen Research & Development, LLC
- GlaxoSmithKline
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