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Study identifies factors linked with better medication response for treatment of juvenile arthritis
Date:11/6/2011

CHICAGO Among patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) who initiated treatment with the drug etanercept, one-third achieved an excellent response, and this response was associated with low measures of disability at study entry, younger age at the onset of JIA, and fewer disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs used before initiating etanercept, according to a study appearing in JAMA. The study is being released early online to coincide with its presentation at the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals Annual Scientific Meeting.

Etanercept was approved a decade ago by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of JIA. "Since the development of biological agents, the pharmacological treatment approach of JIA is changing rapidly, and synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic agents (DMARDs) are used earlier in the disease course, which seem to provide better long-term outcomes. As a result of these treatment successes, a treatment goal of reaching inactive disease now seems realistic. However, inactive disease is still not achieved in a substantial proportion of cases, and current approaches need to be optimized even more," according to background information in the article. "The ability to identify patients who are more likely to respond to etanercept treatment would be an important step toward tailored patient-specific treatment and subsequently could improve current treatment approaches."

Marieke H. Otten, M.D., M.Sc., of the Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and colleagues conducted a study to evaluate JIA disease activity after beginning treatment with etanercept and to identify characteristics associated with treatment response. The researchers used data from the Arthritis and Bioiogicals in Children Register, an ongoing prospective observational study since 1999, which includes all Dutch JIA patients wh
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Contact: Marieke H. Otten, M.D., M.Sc.
m.otten@erasmusmc.nl
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