A Study Evaluating the Efficacy and Safety of Guselkumab Administered Subcutaneously in Participants With Active Psoriatic Arthritis Including Those Previously Treated With Biologic Anti -Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Alpha Agent(s)

Summary

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of guselkumab treatment in participants with active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) by assessing the reduction in signs and symptoms of PsA.

Timeline

Start

2017-08-24

Primary completion

2019-03-14

Completion

2019-11-18

Publications

• Gladman DD, Eder L, Selmi C, Mease PJ, Ogdie A, Lozenski K, Adamson E, Sharaf M, Rampakakis E, Pina Vegas L, Coates LC. Influence of Biological Sex on Participant Characteristics, Guselkumab Efficacy and Radiographic Progression in Active Psoriatic Arthritis: Post Hoc Analysis of Three Randomized Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2026 Feb;13(1):213-229. doi: 10.1007/s40744-025-00812-3. Epub 2025 Dec 15.
• Mease P, Korotaeva T, Shesternya P, Kokhan M, Rukavitsyn A, Vasilchenkov D, Sharaf M, Lavie F, Deodhar A. Guselkumab in Biologic-Naive Patients with Active Psoriatic Arthritis in Russia: A Post Hoc Analysis of the DISCOVER-1 and -2 Randomized Clinical Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2024 Dec;11(6):1551-1567. doi: 10.1007/s40744-024-00713-x. Epub 2024 Sep 25.
• Curtis JR, Deodhar A, Soriano ER, Rampakakis E, Shawi M, Shiff NJ, Han C, Tillett W, Gladman DD. Early Improvements with Guselkumab Associate with Sustained Control of Psoriatic Arthritis: Post hoc Analyses of Two Phase 3 Trials. Rheumatol Ther. 2024 Dec;11(6):1501-1517. doi: 10.1007/s40744-024-00702-0. Epub 2024 Sep 11.
• Baraliakos X, Gladman DD, Chakravarty SD, Gong C, Shawi M, Rampakakis E, Kishimoto M, Soriano ER, Mease PJ. BASDAI versus ASDAS in evaluating axial involvement in patients with psoriatic arthritis: a pooled analysis of two phase 3 studies. Rheumatol Adv Pract. 2024 Apr 23;8(2):rkae058. doi: 10.1093/rap/rkae058. eCollection 2024.
• Strober B, Coates LC, Lebwohl MG, Deodhar A, Leibowitz E, Rowland K, Kollmeier AP, Miller M, Wang Y, Li S, Chakravarty SD, Chan D, Shawi M, Yang YW, Thaҫi D, Rahman P. Long-Term Safety of Guselkumab in Patients with Psoriatic Disease: An Integrated Analysis of Eleven Phase II/III Clinical Studies in Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis. Drug Saf. 2024 Jan;47(1):39-57. doi: 10.1007/s40264-023-01361-w. Epub 2023 Oct 31.
• Kavanaugh A, Baraliakos X, Gao S, Chen W, Sweet K, Chakravarty SD, Song Q, Shawi M, Rahman P. Genetic and Molecular Distinctions Between Axial Psoriatic Arthritis and Radiographic Axial Spondyloarthritis: Post Hoc Analyses from Four Phase 3 Clinical Trials. Adv Ther. 2023 May;40(5):2439-2456. doi: 10.1007/s12325-023-02475-4. Epub 2023 Mar 30.
• Rahman P, Boehncke WH, Mease PJ, Gottlieb AB, McInnes IB, Shawi M, Wang Y, Sheng S, Kollmeier AP, Theander E, Yu J, Leibowitz E, Marrache AM, Coates LC. Safety of Guselkumab With and Without Prior Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibitor Treatment: Pooled Results Across 4 Studies in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2023 Jun;50(6):769-780. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.220928. Epub 2023 Jan 15.
• Orbai AM, Coates LC, Deodhar A, Helliwell PS, Ritchlin CT, Leibowitz E, Kollmeier AP, Hsia EC, Xu XL, Sheng S, Jiang Y, Liu Y, Han C. Meaningful Improvement in General Health Outcomes with Guselkumab Treatment for Psoriatic Arthritis: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-29 Results from a Phase 3 Study. Patient. 2022 Nov;15(6):657-668. doi: 10.1007/s40271-022-00588-6. Epub 2022 Jun 30.
• Coates LC, Ritchlin CT, Gossec L, Helliwell PS, Rahman P, Kollmeier AP, Xu XL, Shawi M, Karyekar CS, Contre C, Noel W, Sheng S, Wang Y, Xu S, Mease PJ. Guselkumab provides sustained domain-specific and comprehensive efficacy using composite indices in patients with active psoriatic arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 Feb 1;62(2):606-616. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keac375.
• Ritchlin CT, Mease PJ, Boehncke WH, Tesser J, Schiopu E, Chakravarty SD, Kollmeier AP, Xu XL, Shawi M, Jiang Y, Sheng S, Wang Y, Xu S, Merola JF, McInnes IB, Deodhar A. Sustained and improved guselkumab response in patients with active psoriatic arthritis regardless of baseline demographic and disease characteristics: pooled results through week 52 of two phase III, randomised, placebo-controlled studies. RMD Open. 2022 Mar;8(1):e002195. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2022-002195.
• Rahman P, Mease PJ, Helliwell PS, Deodhar A, Gossec L, Kavanaugh A, Kollmeier AP, Hsia EC, Zhou B, Lin X, Shawi M, Karyekar CS, Han C. Guselkumab demonstrated an independent treatment effect in reducing fatigue after adjustment for clinical response-results from two phase 3 clinical trials of 1120 patients with active psoriatic arthritis. Arthritis Res Ther. 2021 Jul 14;23(1):190. doi: 10.1186/s13075-021-02554-3.
• Sweet K, Song Q, Loza MJ, McInnes IB, Ma K, Leander K, Lakshminarayanan V, Franks C, Cooper P, Siebert S. Guselkumab induces robust reduction in acute phase proteins and type 17 effector cytokines in active psoriatic arthritis: results from phase 3 trials. RMD Open. 2021 May;7(2):e001679. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2021-001679.
• Rahman P, Ritchlin CT, Helliwell PS, Boehncke WH, Mease PJ, Gottlieb AB, Kafka S, Kollmeier AP, Hsia EC, Xu XL, Shawi M, Sheng S, Agarwal P, Zhou B, Ramachandran P, Zhuang Y, McInnes IB. Pooled Safety Results Through 1 Year of 2 Phase III Trials of Guselkumab in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis. J Rheumatol. 2021 Dec;48(12):1815-1823. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.201532. Epub 2021 May 1.
• McGonagle D, McInnes IB, Deodhar A, Schett G, Shawi M, Kafka S, Karyekar CS, Kollmeier AP, Hsia EC, Xu XL, Sheng S, Agarwal P, Zhou B, Ritchlin CT, Rahman P, Mease PJ. Resolution of enthesitis by guselkumab and relationships to disease burden: 1-year results of two phase 3 psoriatic arthritis studies. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2021 Nov 3;60(11):5337-5350. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keab285.
• Deodhar A, Helliwell PS, Boehncke WH, Kollmeier AP, Hsia EC, Subramanian RA, Xu XL, Sheng S, Agarwal P, Zhou B, Zhuang Y, Ritchlin CT; DISCOVER-1 Study Group. Guselkumab in patients with active psoriatic arthritis who were biologic-naive or had previously received TNFalpha inhibitor treatment (DISCOVER-1): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2020 Apr 4;395(10230):1115-1125. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30265-8. Epub 2020 Mar 13.

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