Abstracts tagged "disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and safety"

Abstract Number: 2403 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Adverse Events of Special Interest in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated with Peficitinib in Asian Population: Pooled Safety Findings
Tsutomu Takeuchi¹, Yoshiya Tanaka ², Mitsuhiro Rokuda ³, Hiroyuki Izutsu ³, Yuichiro Kaneko ³, Musashi Fukuda ³ and Daisuke Kato ³, ¹Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, ²University of Occupational and Environmental Health Japan, Kitakyushu, Japan, ³Astellas Pharma, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Background/Purpose: Peficitinib, a novel oral Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, has demonstrated efficacy in studies of Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese patients with RA. This analysis of…