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Table 1 Main characteristics of patients at golimumab initiation

From: Four-years retention rate of golimumab administered after discontinuation of non-TNF inhibitors in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases

 

All (n = 125)

RA (n = 72)

Axial SpA (n = 23)

PsA (n = 30)

Mean age, years (SD)

55.9 (13.5)

61.5 (12.2)

50.8 (12.7)

46.7 (10.3)

Gender, n (%)

    

 Male

40 (32.0)

10 (13.9)

16 (69.6)

14 (46.7)

 Female

85 (68.0)

62 (86.1)

7 (30.4)

16 (53.3)

Median disease duration, years (IQR)

10.0 (6.5–17.4)

10.6 (7.6–18.6)

10.4 (5.7–44.0)

8.7 (4.6–10.9)

Order (line) of golimumab therapy, n (%)

    

 Second

26 (20.8)

15 (20.8)

2 (8.7)

9 (30.0)

 Third

29 (23.2)

14 (19.4)

9 (39.1)

6 (20.0)

 Fourth/subsequent

70 (56.0)

43 (59.7)

12 (52.2)

15 (50.0)

Previous non-TNFi therapy, n (%)

 Biological non-TNFi

  Abatacept

23 (18.4)

22 (30.6)

1 (4.4)

0 (0.00)

  Rituximab

7 (5.6)

6 (8.3)

0 (0.0)

1 (3.3)

  Tocilizumab

17 (13.6)

16 (22.2)

0 (0.0)

1 (3.3)

  Sarilumab

4 (3.2)

4 (5.6)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

  Secukinumab

34 (27.2)

0 (0.00)

21 (91.3)

13 (43.3)

  Ixekizumab

3 (2.4)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

3 (10.0)

  Ustekinumab

7 (5.6)

0 (0.00)

1 (4.4)

6 (20.0)

 Targeted synthetic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs

  Apremilast

6 (4.8)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

6 (20.0)

  Baricitinib

10 (8.0)

10 (13.9)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

  Tofacitinib

14 (11.2)

14 (19.4)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

TNFi previous to non-TNFi, n (%)*

42 (42.4)

17 (29.8)

16 (76.2)

9 (42.9)

  1. IQR interquartile range, PsA psoriatic arthritis, RA rheumatoid arthritis, SD standard deviation, SpA spondylarthritis, TNFi tumor necrosis factor inhibitor
  2. *Percentages calculated over 99 patients who had initiated golimumab in the third/subsequent line of therapy. Represents patients who had discontinued a TNFi prior to starting non-TNFi therapy (All, n = 99; RA, n = 57; axial SpA, n = 21; PsA, n = 21)