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ReviewReumatologia2020

Baricitinib for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.

Ivan Urits, Jacob Israel, Hayk Hakobyan, George Yusin, Grace Lassiter, Nathan Fackler, Amnon A Berger, Hisham Kassem, Alan Kaye, Omar Viswanath

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Review in Reumatologia, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Ivan UritsDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Jacob IsraelGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Hayk HakobyanGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
George YusinGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Grace LassiterGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Nathan FacklerGeorgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Amnon A BergerDepartment of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Hisham KassemDepartment of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida, United States.
Alan KayeDepartment of Anesthesiology, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Shreveport, Los Angeles, United States.
Omar ViswanathValley Anesthesiology and Pain Consultants - Envision Physician Services, Phoenix, Arizona, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a common inflammatory disease with several implications on health, disability and economy. Conventional treatment for RA centers on anti-inflammatory drugs and specific targeting of tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) and interleukin 6 (IL-6). Baricitinib is a novel, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved, once daily oral drug that is effective in combination with current treatment and results in significantly reduced symptoms with good safety profile. Further studies are required to find rare side effects and evaluate the long term efficacy in disease modulation and patient symptom reduction. This is a comprehensive review of the literature on baricitinib for the treatment of RA. This review provides an update on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and conventional treatment of RA, then proceeds to introduce baricitinib and the data that exists to support or refute its use in RA. The presented study also indicated clinical trials confirming the effectiveness of baricitinib in this indication.

Indexed as

baricitinibJanus kinase/signaling transducer and activator of transcriptionkinase inhibitornovel treatmentrheumatoid arthritis

Identifiers

PMID33456084
PMCPMC7792534

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