A Study in Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether baricitinib is superior to placebo in the treatment of participants with moderately to severely active Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) who have had an inadequate response to methotrexate (MTX) treatment.

Timeline

Start

2012-10

Primary completion

2015-03

Completion

2015-09

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

paper More patients had an ACR20 response at week 12 with baricitinib than with placebo (primary end point, 70% vs. 40%, P<0.001). PMID 28199814 ↗

Publications

• Landewe R, Sun L, Chen YF, Daojun M, van der Heijde D. Robust analyses for radiographic progression in rheumatoid arthritis. RMD Open. 2023 Apr;9(2):e002543. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002543.
• Taylor PC, Takeuchi T, Burmester GR, Durez P, Smolen JS, Deberdt W, Issa M, Terres JR, Bello N, Winthrop KL. Safety of baricitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis over a median of 4.6 and up to 9.3 years of treatment: final results from long-term extension study and integrated database. Ann Rheum Dis. 2022 Mar;81(3):335-343. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-221276. Epub 2021 Oct 27.
• van der Heijde D, Kartman CE, Xie L, Beattie S, Schlichting D, Mo D, Durez P, Tanaka Y, Fleischmann R. Radiographic Progression of Structural Joint Damage Over 5 Years of Baricitinib Treatment in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results From RA-BEYOND. J Rheumatol. 2022 Feb;49(2):133-141. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.210346. Epub 2021 Sep 15.
• Emery P, Tanaka Y, Cardillo T, Schlichting D, Rooney T, Beattie S, Helt C, Smolen JS. Temporary interruption of baricitinib: characterization of interruptions and effect on clinical outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2020 May 15;22(1):115. doi: 10.1186/s13075-020-02199-8.
• Schlueter M, Finn E, Diaz S, Dilla T, Inciarte-Mundo J, Fakhouri W. Cost-effectiveness analysis of baricitinib versus adalimumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis in Spain. Clinicoecon Outcomes Res. 2019 Jun 6;11:395-403. doi: 10.2147/CEOR.S201621. eCollection 2019.
• Michaud K, Pope JE, Emery P, Zhu B, Gaich CL, DeLozier AM, Zhang X, Dickson CL, Smolen JS. Relative Impact of Pain and Fatigue on Work Productivity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis from the RA-BEAM Baricitinib Trial. Rheumatol Ther. 2019 Sep;6(3):409-419. doi: 10.1007/s40744-019-0164-4. Epub 2019 Jun 21.
• Tanaka Y, Fautrel B, Keystone EC, Ortmann RA, Xie L, Zhu B, Issa M, Patel H, Gaich CL, de Bono S, Rooney TP, Taylor PC. Clinical outcomes in patients switched from adalimumab to baricitinib due to non-response and/or study design: phase III data in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Jul;78(7):890-898. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214529. Epub 2019 Apr 30.
• Bingham CO 3rd, Gaich CL, DeLozier AM, Engstrom KD, Naegeli AN, de Bono S, Banerjee P, Taylor PC. Use of daily electronic patient-reported outcome (PRO) diaries in randomized controlled trials for rheumatoid arthritis: rationale and implementation. Trials. 2019 Mar 22;20(1):182. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3272-0.
• Combe B, Balsa A, Sarzi-Puttini P, Tony HP, de la Torre I, Rogai V, Durand F, Witt S, Zhong J, Dougados M. Efficacy and safety data based on historical or pre-existing conditions at baseline for patients with active rheumatoid arthritis who were treated with baricitinib. Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Aug;78(8):1135-1138. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2018-214261. Epub 2019 Mar 6. No abstract available.
• Smolen JS, Genovese MC, Takeuchi T, Hyslop DL, Macias WL, Rooney T, Chen L, Dickson CL, Riddle Camp J, Cardillo TE, Ishii T, Winthrop KL. Safety Profile of Baricitinib in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis with over 2 Years Median Time in Treatment. J Rheumatol. 2019 Jan;46(1):7-18. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.171361. Epub 2018 Sep 15.
• Tanaka Y, McInnes IB, Taylor PC, Byers NL, Chen L, de Bono S, Issa M, Macias WL, Rogai V, Rooney TP, Schlichting DE, Zuckerman SH, Emery P. Characterization and Changes of Lymphocyte Subsets in Baricitinib-Treated Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: An Integrated Analysis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2018 Dec;70(12):1923-1932. doi: 10.1002/art.40680. Epub 2018 Oct 22.
• Wells AF, Greenwald M, Bradley JD, Alam J, Arora V, Kartman CE. Baricitinib in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and an Inadequate Response to Conventional Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs in United States and Rest of World: A Subset Analysis. Rheumatol Ther. 2018 Jun;5(1):43-55. doi: 10.1007/s40744-018-0110-x. Epub 2018 Apr 21.
• Taylor PC, Kremer JM, Emery P, Zuckerman SH, Ruotolo G, Zhong J, Chen L, Witt S, Saifan C, Kurzawa M, Otvos JD, Connelly MA, Macias WL, Schlichting DE, Rooney TP, de Bono S, McInnes IB. Lipid profile and effect of statin treatment in pooled phase II and phase III baricitinib studies. Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Jul;77(7):988-995. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212461. Epub 2018 Feb 20.
• Keystone EC, Taylor PC, Tanaka Y, Gaich C, DeLozier AM, Dudek A, Zamora JV, Cobos JAC, Rooney T, Bono S, Arora V, Linetzky B, Weinblatt ME. Patient-reported outcomes from a phase 3 study of baricitinib versus placebo or adalimumab in rheumatoid arthritis: secondary analyses from the RA-BEAM study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2017 Nov;76(11):1853-1861. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-211259. Epub 2017 Aug 10.
• Taylor PC, Keystone EC, van der Heijde D, Weinblatt ME, Del Carmen Morales L, Reyes Gonzaga J, Yakushin S, Ishii T, Emoto K, Beattie S, Arora V, Gaich C, Rooney T, Schlichting D, Macias WL, de Bono S, Tanaka Y. Baricitinib versus Placebo or Adalimumab in Rheumatoid Arthritis. N Engl J Med. 2017 Feb 16;376(7):652-662. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1608345.

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