A Study Comparing Upadacitinib (ABT-494) to Placebo in Participants With Active Psoriatic Arthritis Who Have a History of Inadequate Response to at Least One Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug

Summary

This is a Phase 3 multicenter study that included two periods. Period 1 was designed to compare the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of upadacitinib 15 mg once daily (QD) and 30 mg QD versus placebo in participants with moderately to severely active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) who had an inadequate response to Biological Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drug (bDMARDs). Period 2 evaluated the safety, tolerability and efficacy of upadacitinib 15 mg QD and 30 mg QD in subjects with PsA who completed Period 1.

Timeline

Start

2017-05-01

Primary completion

2019-07-23

Completion

2024-09-30

Publications

• Burmester GR, Deodhar A, Irvine AD, Panaccione R, Winthrop KL, Vleugels RA, Levy G, Suravaram S, Palac H, Wegrzyn L, Ford S, Meerwein S, Guttman-Yassky E. Safety Profile of Upadacitinib: Descriptive Analysis in Over 27,000 Patient-Years Across Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Axial Spondyloarthritis, Atopic Dermatitis, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Adv Ther. 2025 Oct;42(10):5215-5237. doi: 10.1007/s12325-025-03328-y. Epub 2025 Aug 28.
• Burmester GR, Stigler J, Rubbert-Roth A, Tanaka Y, Azevedo VF, Coombs D, Lagunes I, Lippe R, Wung P, Gensler LS. Safety Profile of Upadacitinib up to 5 Years in Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis: An Integrated Analysis of Clinical Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2024 Jun;11(3):737-753. doi: 10.1007/s40744-024-00671-4. Epub 2024 Apr 29.
• Cantini F, Marchesoni A, Novelli L, Gualberti G, Marando F, McDearmon-Blondell EL, Gao T, McGonagle D, Salvarani C. Effects of upadacitinib on enthesitis in patients with psoriatic arthritis: a post hoc analysis of SELECT-PsA 1 and 2 trials. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2024 Nov 1;63(11):3146-3154. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keae057.
• Rubbert-Roth A, Kakehasi AM, Takeuchi T, Schmalzing M, Palac H, Coombs D, Liu J, Anyanwu SI, Lippe R, Curtis JR. Malignancy in the Upadacitinib Clinical Trials for Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, and Non-radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis. Rheumatol Ther. 2024 Feb;11(1):97-112. doi: 10.1007/s40744-023-00621-6. Epub 2023 Nov 20.
• Charles-Schoeman C, Choy E, McInnes IB, Mysler E, Nash P, Yamaoka K, Lippe R, Khan N, Shmagel AK, Palac H, Suboticki J, Curtis JR. MACE and VTE across upadacitinib clinical trial programmes in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis. RMD Open. 2023 Nov;9(4):e003392. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2023-003392.
• Mease P, Setty A, Papp K, Van den Bosch F, Tsuji S, Keiserman M, Carter K, Li Y, McCaskill R, McDearmon-Blondell E, Wung P, Tillett W. Upadacitinib in patients with psoriatic arthritis and inadequate response to biologics: 3-year results from the open-label extension of the randomised controlled phase 3 SELECT-PsA 2 study. Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2023 Nov;41(11):2286-2297. doi: 10.55563/clinexprheumatol/8l7bbk. Epub 2023 Jul 5.
• Burmester GR, Cohen SB, Winthrop KL, Nash P, Irvine AD, Deodhar A, Mysler E, Tanaka Y, Liu J, Lacerda AP, Palac H, Shaw T, Mease PJ, Guttman-Yassky E. Safety profile of upadacitinib over 15 000 patient-years across rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and atopic dermatitis. RMD Open. 2023 Feb;9(1):e002735. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002735.
• Mease P, Kavanaugh A, Gladman D, FitzGerald O, Soriano ER, Nash P, Feng D, Lertratanakul A, Douglas K, Lippe R, Gossec L. Disease Control with Upadacitinib in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: A Post Hoc Analysis of the Randomized, Placebo-Controlled SELECT-PsA 1 and 2 Phase 3 Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2022 Aug;9(4):1181-1191. doi: 10.1007/s40744-022-00449-6. Epub 2022 May 23.
• Burmester GR, Winthrop K, Blanco R, Nash P, Goupille P, Azevedo VF, Salvarani C, Rubbert-Roth A, Lesser E, Lippe R, Lertratanakul A, Mccaskill RM, Liu J, Ruderman EM. Safety Profile of Upadacitinib up to 3 Years in Psoriatic Arthritis: An Integrated Analysis of Two Pivotal Phase 3 Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2022 Apr;9(2):521-539. doi: 10.1007/s40744-021-00410-z. Epub 2021 Dec 30.
• Nash P, Richette P, Gossec L, Marchesoni A, Ritchlin C, Kato K, McDearmon-Blondell EL, Lesser E, McCaskill R, Feng D, Anderson JK, Ruderman EM. Upadacitinib as monotherapy and in combination with non-biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs for psoriatic arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2022 Aug 3;61(8):3257-3268. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab905.
• Strand V, Van den Bosch F, Ranza R, Leung YY, Drescher E, Zueger P, Saffore CD, Lertratanakul A, Lippe R, Nash P. Patient-Reported Outcomes in Psoriatic Arthritis Patients with an Inadequate Response to Biologic Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs: SELECT-PsA 2. Rheumatol Ther. 2021 Dec;8(4):1827-1844. doi: 10.1007/s40744-021-00377-x. Epub 2021 Oct 18.
• Muensterman E, Engelhardt B, Gopalakrishnan S, Anderson JK, Mohamed MF. Upadacitinib pharmacokinetics and exposure-response analyses of efficacy and safety in psoriatic arthritis patients - Analyses of phase III clinical trials. Clin Transl Sci. 2022 Jan;15(1):267-278. doi: 10.1111/cts.13146. Epub 2021 Oct 27.
• Mease PJ, Lertratanakul A, Papp KA, van den Bosch FE, Tsuji S, Dokoupilova E, Keiserman MW, Bu X, Chen L, McCaskill RM, Zueger P, McDearmon-Blondell EL, Pangan AL, Tillett W. Upadacitinib in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis and Inadequate Response to Biologics: 56-Week Data from the Randomized Controlled Phase 3 SELECT-PsA 2 Study. Rheumatol Ther. 2021 Jun;8(2):903-919. doi: 10.1007/s40744-021-00305-z. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
• Mease PJ, Lertratanakul A, Anderson JK, Papp K, Van den Bosch F, Tsuji S, Dokoupilova E, Keiserman M, Wang X, Zhong S, McCaskill RM, Zueger P, Pangan AL, Tillett W. Upadacitinib for psoriatic arthritis refractory to biologics: SELECT-PsA 2. Ann Rheum Dis. 2021 Mar;80(3):312-320. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2020-218870. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

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