Clinical Implications of Shared Epitope and Anti-citrullinated Peptide Antibody in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Objective: The shared epitope (SE) and anti-citrullinated peptide antibody (ACPA) are involved in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study evaluated the clinical implications of SE and ACPA in terms of disease manifestation and response to biologic disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

Methods: Patients with identified human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DRB1 alleles were included to compare the clinical characteristics and drug survival rate of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors or abatacept based on the presence of SE and ACPA.

Results: Of the 533 patients with identified HLA-DRB1 alleles, 329 patients (61.7%) with SE alleles showed higher disease activity and erosive changes compared to patients without SE alleles. SE-positive patients were more likely to start biologic (b-) or targeted synthetic DMARDs (tsDMARDs) within the first 5 years (p=0.020). The presence of SE, smoking, dyslipidemia, and higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate were independently associated with the initiation of b- or tsDMARDs (p=0.016, 0.028, 0.031, and 0.001, respectively). The presence of SE and ACPA did not affect the drug survival rate of TNF inhibitors, whereas the abatacept retention rate was higher in ACPA-positive patients (p=0.024).

Conclusion: The presence of SE affected disease characteristics and prognosis in Korean patients with RA without a significant impact on drug survival rate of TNF inhibitors and abatacept. ACPA positivity was associated with abatacept drug retention, suggesting that abatacept may be helpful in ACPA-positive patients than in ACPA-negative patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:29

Enthalten in:

Journal of rheumatic diseases - 29(2022), 3 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 171-180

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jung, Seung Min [VerfasserIn]
Park, Yune-Jung [VerfasserIn]
Park, Kyung-Su [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Ki-Jo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Abatacept
Antibodies
Epitopes
Journal Article
Rheumatoid arthritis

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 22.07.2023

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4078/jrd.2022.29.3.171

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM359763839