The impact of smoking on response to tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor treatment in patients with ankylosing spondylitis

BACKGROUND: To investigate the impact of smoking on disease activity, treatment retention, and response in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) treated with their first tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitor (TNFi).

METHODS: AS patients who started their first TNFi treatment for the active axial disease (BASDAI ≥ 4) from TURKBIO Registry were included. Treatment response of smoker (current and ex-smokers) and nonsmoker (never smoker) patients were primarily evaluated as achievement of BASDAI50 or improvement in BASDAI at least 20 mm at 3 months and 6 months compared to baseline.

RESULTS: There were 322 patients with AS (60% male, 59% smoker, mean age: 38.3 years). The median follow-up time was 2.8 years (Q1- Q3: 1.3-3.8), and disease duration was 3.5 years (Q1-Q3: 0.7-8.2). Smokers had male predominance (p < 0.001), lower ESR (p = 0.03), higher BASDAI (p = 0.02), BASFI (p = 0.05), HAQ-AS (p = 0.007), and ASDAS-CRP (p = 0.04) compared with nonsmokers at baseline. In the multivariate analysis, male gender [OR 2.7 (95%CI 1.4-5), p = 0.002], and concomitant conventional synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug use [OR 2.4 (95%CI 1.1-5.2), p = 0.03] were associated with better treatment response. There was an association of male gender [HR 2.4 (95%CI 1.6-3.7), p < 0.001], older age (≥30years) [HR 1.8 (95%CI 1.1-2.8), p = 0.01], and response to treatment [HR 1.8 (95%CI 1.2-2.9), p = 0.008] with better treatment retention. No impact of smoking status was found on treatment retention and response in univariate and multivariate analyses.

DISCUSSION: This study suggested that smoking was associated with poorer patient-reported outcomes in biologic naïve AS patients initiating their first TNFi treatment, but it had no impact on the TNFi treatment response and retention rate.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:53

Enthalten in:

Turkish journal of medical sciences - 53(2023), 4 vom: 31. Aug., Seite 970-978

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tuğsal, Handan Yarkan [VerfasserIn]
Artin, Gökçe Kenar [VerfasserIn]
Can, Gerçek [VerfasserIn]
Çapar, Sedat [VerfasserIn]
Zengin, Berrin [VerfasserIn]
Akar, Servet [VerfasserIn]
Dalkiliç, Hüseyin Ediz [VerfasserIn]
Şenel, Abdurrahman Soner [VerfasserIn]
Koca, Süleyman Serdar [VerfasserIn]
Göker, Berna [VerfasserIn]
Yazici, Ayten [VerfasserIn]
İnanç, Güzide Nevsun [VerfasserIn]
Ellidokuz, Hülya [VerfasserIn]
Akkoç, Nurullah [VerfasserIn]
Önen, Fatoş [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ankylosing spondylitis
Antirheumatic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Journal Article
Registry
Smoking
Treatment response
Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
Tumor necrosis factor-alpha inhibitor

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 01.12.2023

Date Revised 04.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.55730/1300-0144.5661

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36523091X