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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2024
Real-World Maintenance Phase Persistence on Ustekinumab and Adalimumab in Ulcerative Colitis.
- Maryia Zhdanava, Sumesh Kachroo, Aditi Shah, Zhijie Ding, Patrick Lefebvre, Ruizhi Zhao, Caroline Kerner, and Dominic Pilon.
- Analysis Group, Inc, Montréal, QC, Canada.
- Patient Prefer Adher. 2024 Jan 1; 18: 809820809-820.
PurposeTo describe real-world persistence in bio-naïve and bio-experienced adults with ulcerative colitis (UC) treated with ustekinumab, a recently approved anti-interleukin 12/23 antibody, or adalimumab, an anti-TNF biologic.MethodsThis is a descriptive, retrospective cohort study. Patients initiating ustekinumab or adalimumab (index date, between 10/21/2019 and 08/13/2021) were selected from the Komodo Health comprehensive dataset and stratified into bio-naïve and bio-experienced subgroups based on biologic use 12 months pre-index date. Endpoints evaluated at 12-months after maintenance phase start using Kaplan-Meier analysis included 1) persistence; 2) persistence while being corticosteroid-free (<14 consecutive days of corticosteroid supply after day 90 post-index); and, 3) persistence while on monotherapy (no immunomodulators/non-index biologics/advanced therapies).ResultsUstekinumab cohort included 778 patients (236 bio-naïve, 542 bio-experienced) and adalimumab cohort included 1693 patients (1517 bio-naive, 176 bio-experienced). At 12 months after maintenance phase start, 75.5% and 50.5% of bio-naïve patients persisted on ustekinumab and adalimumab and 72.3% and 56.9% of bio-experienced patients persisted on ustekinumab and adalimumab, respectively. Further, 55.1% and 38.2% of bio-naïve patients were persistent and corticosteroid-free with ustekinumab and adalimumab; 43.7% and 33.4% of bio-experienced patients were persistent and corticosteroid-free with ustekinumab and adalimumab, respectively. Moreover, 68.1% and 44.5% of bio-naïve patients were persistent and on monotherapy with ustekinumab and adalimumab; 61.6% and 47.9% of bio-experienced patients were persistent and on monotherapy with ustekinumab and adalimumab, respectively.ConclusionAt 12 months after maintenance phase start, patients with UC treated with ustekinumab had numerically higher persistence, including persistence while corticosteroid-free and persistence while on monotherapy, than patients treated with adalimumab.© 2024 Zhdanava et al.
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