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- Title
Initiation of rheumatoid arthritis treatments and the risk of serious infections.
- Authors
Grijalva, Carlos G; Kaltenbach, Lisa; Arbogast, Patrick G; Mitchel, Edward F, Jr; Griffin, Marie R
- Abstract
In clinical trials of RA patients on traditional DMARDs, the addition of TNF-alpha antagonists increased infections compared with addition of placebo. Our objective was to compare serious infections following initiation of different RA regimens. Prior comparative studies of DMARD initiation have yielded conflicting results.
- Publication
Rheumatology (Oxford, England), 2010, Vol 49, Issue 1, p82
- ISSN
1462-0332
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/rheumatology/kep325