REMICADE-Treated Patients Experienced Rapid and Substantial Improvement in Psoriasis in Critical Regio...(nts in the combined REMICADE groups (3mg...),Health

Date:2/4/2008

nts in the combined REMICADE groups (3mg/kg and 5 mg/kg) experienced similar improvement in PASI scores of the upper and lower extremities. For the upper extremities the proportions of patients achieving at least 75 percent improvement or at least 90 percent improvement versus placebo were as follows: SPIRIT, 77 percent versus 6 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 49 percent versus 2 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement; EXPRESS, 82 percent versus 4 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 56 percent versus 1 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement; EXPRESS II, 72 percent versus 2 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 46 percent versus 0.5 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement. Results for the lower extremities were: SPIRIT, 72 percent versus 8 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 49 percent versus 2 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement; EXPRESS, 75 percent versus 3 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 50 percent versus 1 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement; EXPRESS II, 65 percent versus 4 percent achieved at least 75 percent improvement and 35 percent versus 0.5 percent achieved at least 90 percent improvement.

Further results from the integrated analysis were published in the summer 2007 issue of the Psoriasis Forum, a journal of the National Psoriasis Foundation, and showed the consistency of REMICADE response across subgroups defined by a variety of baseline demographic and disease characteristics in patients with psoriasis. REMICADE was similarly effective regardless of previous use of phototherapy or major conventional systemic therapies.(i)

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EXPRESS was a Phase 3, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial that evaluated the safety and efficacy of REMICADE induction and maintenance therapy in 378 adult patients with chronic, stable plaque psoriasis involving at least 10 per
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