Psoriatic Arthritis News

Arthritis and hypertension are the two most prevalent chronic conditions among U.S. veterans aged 25 years and older, according to data published by CDC researchers in National Health Statistics Report.

Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, professor of dermatology and epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses an upcoming program from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

More than half of patients with psoriatic arthritis experience a two-year delay from symptom onset to diagnosis, especially younger patients, those who are obese and those with enthesitis, noted data published in The Journal of Rheumatology.

Systemic inflammation burden and disease activity are independent risk factors for heart failure among patients with psoriatic disease, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Men with poor cardiorespiratory fitness levels during late adolescence were more likely to develop psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis later in life, according to a study.

The FDA has approved a label update for Janssen’s golimumab to include language that treatment alongside methotrexate improves fatigue in patients with active psoriatic arthritis and moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis.

Ixekizumab is efficacious in patients with psoriatic arthritis for up to 1 year, with or without concomitant methotrexate use, according to data published in Arthritis Research & Therapy.

Moderate and high disease activity, as well as the use of immunosuppressants, were associated with a higher risk for COVID-related death in patients with rheumatic diseases, according to data in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

For Pfizer and its JAK inhibitor, Xeljanz, February rang in with the sound of alarm bells, as the FDA issued its third warning about the drug in 2 years.

Patients’ response to anti-CTLA-4 or anti-PD-1 checkpoint therapy for advanced melanoma, and their incidence of immune-related adverse events of grade 3 or higher, were similar regardless of preexisting autoimmune disease, according to data.