A Study to Evaluate Upadacitinib in Combination With Topical Corticosteroids in Adolescent and Adult Participants With Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis

Summary

The objective of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of upadacitinib combined with topical corticosteroids (TCS) for the treatment of adolescent and adult participants with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis (AD) who are candidates for systemic therapy.

Timeline

Start

2018-08-09

Primary completion

2021-02-16

Completion

2030-10-23

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

registry analysis (superiority test); Placebo + Topical Corticosteroids vs Upadacitinib 30 mg + Topical Corticosteroids; p <0.001; Adjusted Response Rate Difference 50.6 (95% CI 43.8 to 57.4) NCT03568318 ↗

registry analysis (superiority test); Placebo + Topical Corticosteroids vs Upadacitinib 30 mg + Topical Corticosteroids; p <0.001; Adjusted Response Rate Difference 47.6 (95% CI 41.1 to 54.0) NCT03568318 ↗

release “met the co-primary endpoints and all secondary endpoints in AD Up” abbvie.com ↗

Publications

• Irvine AD, Prajapati VH, Guttman-Yassky E, Simpson EL, Papp KA, Blauvelt A, Chu CY, Hong HC, Gold LFS, de Bruin-Weller M, Bieber T, Kabashima K, Rosmarin D, Sancho C, Calimlim BM, Grada A, Yang Y, Wu X, Levy G, Raymundo EM, Teixeira HD, Silverberg JI. Efficacy and Safety of Upadacitinib in Patients With Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis: Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial Results Through 140 Weeks. Am J Clin Dermatol. 2025 Nov;26(6):1003-1016. doi: 10.1007/s40257-025-00975-3. Epub 2025 Sep 3.
• 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.
• Paller AS, Mendes-Bastos P, Siegfried E, Eichenfield LF, Soong W, Prajapati VH, Lio P, Simpson EL, Raymundo EM, Suravaram S, Hu X, Yang Y, Huang X, Calimlim BM, Platt AM, Su JC, Zheng M, Yamamoto-Hanada K, Teixeira HD, Irvine AD. Upadacitinib in Adolescents With Moderate to Severe Atopic Dermatitis: Analysis of 3 Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trials Through 76 Weeks. JAMA Dermatol. 2024 Dec 1;160(12):1304-1313. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.3696.
• Silverberg JI, Leshem YA, Calimlim BM, McDonald J, Litcher-Kelly L. Psychometric evaluation of the Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale (NRS), Atopic Dermatitis Symptom Scale (ADerm-SS), and Atopic Dermatitis Impact Scale (ADerm-IS). Curr Med Res Opin. 2023 Oct;39(10):1289-1296. doi: 10.1080/03007995.2023.2251883. Epub 2023 Sep 13.
• Thyssen JP, Thaci D, Bieber T, Gooderham M, de Bruin-Weller M, Soong W, Kabashima K, Barbarot S, Luna PC, Xu J, Hu X, Liu Y, Raymundo EM, Calimlim BM, Nduaka C, Gamelli A, Simpson EL. Upadacitinib for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: Stratified analysis from three randomized phase 3 trials by key baseline characteristics. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2023 Sep;37(9):1871-1880. doi: 10.1111/jdv.19232. Epub 2023 Jun 21.
• Paller AS, Ladizinski B, Mendes-Bastos P, Siegfried E, Soong W, Prajapati VH, Lio P, Thyssen JP, Simpson EL, Platt AM, Raymundo EM, Liu J, Calimlim BM, Huang X, Gu Y, Hu X, Yang Y, Su JC, Zheng M, Yamamoto-Hanada K, Teixeira HD, Irvine AD. Efficacy and Safety of Upadacitinib Treatment in Adolescents With Moderate-to-Severe Atopic Dermatitis: Analysis of the Measure Up 1, Measure Up 2, and AD Up Randomized Clinical Trials. JAMA Dermatol. 2023 May 1;159(5):526-535. doi: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2023.0391.
• 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.
• Silverberg JI, Simpson EL, Calimlim BM, Litcher-Kelly L, Li X, Sun X, Leshem YA. Determining Severity Strata for Three Atopic Dermatitis Patient-Reported Outcome Questionnaires: Defining Severity Score Ranges for the Worst Pruritus Numerical Rating Scale and the Atopic Dermatitis Symptom and Impact Scales (ADerm-SS and ADerm-IS). Dermatol Ther (Heidelb). 2022 Dec;12(12):2817-2827. doi: 10.1007/s13555-022-00836-5. Epub 2022 Nov 4.
• Mendes-Bastos P, Ladizinski B, Guttman-Yassky E, Jiang P, Liu J, Prajapati VH, Simpson EL, Vigna N, Teixeira HD, Barbarot S. Characterization of acne associated with upadacitinib treatment in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis: A post hoc integrated analysis of 3 phase 3 randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2022 Oct;87(4):784-791. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2022.06.012. Epub 2022 Jun 15.
• Reich K, Teixeira HD, de Bruin-Weller M, Bieber T, Soong W, Kabashima K, Werfel T, Zeng J, Huang X, Hu X, Hendrickson BA, Ladizinski B, Chu AD, Silverberg JI. Safety and efficacy of upadacitinib in combination with topical corticosteroids in adolescents and adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD Up): results from a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2021 Jun 5;397(10290):2169-2181. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00589-4. Epub 2021 May 21.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Upadacitinib	Small molecule	15 mg	Oral
Subject	Upadacitinib	Small molecule	30 mg	Oral
Background	Hydrocortisone	Other / unclassified	1 %	Topical
Background	Triamcinolone Acetonide	Other / unclassified	0.1 %	Topical
Background	fluocinolone acetonide	Other / unclassified	0.025 %	Topical

Indications