Abstracts tagged "abatacept and rheumatoid arthritis"

Abstract Number: 553 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Channeling to Treatment and Associated Changes in Disease Activity Over 12 Months in Patients With RA Treated With Abatacept Versus Other DMARDs in Real-World Community Practice Settings
Leticia Ferri¹, Jeffrey R. Curtis², Ying Bao¹, Evo Alemao¹, Tammy Curtice¹, Joshua Bryson¹, Karissa Lozenski¹, Sandhya Balachandar¹ and Varshini Rajagopalan³, ¹Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, ²University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Mu Sigma, Bangalore, India
Background/Purpose: Abatacept (ABA), a selective T-cell co-stimulatory modulator, has shown efficacy similar to TNF inhibitors (TNFi) for RA management in clinical trial settings, but different…