Clinical, functional and radiographic consequences of achieving stable low disease activity and remission with adalimumab plus methotrexate or methotrexate alone in early rheumatoid arthritis: 26-week results from the randomised, controlled OPTIMA study.

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Published in Ann Rheum Dis on May 05, 2012

Authors

Arthur Kavanaugh1, Roy M Fleischmann, Paul Emery, Hartmut Kupper, Laura Redden, Benoit Guerette, Sourav Santra, Josef S Smolen

Author Affiliations

1: UCSD, UCSD, Rheumatology, Allergy, Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA. akavanaugh@ucsd.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Study of the Optimal Protocol for Methotrexate and Adalimumab Combination Therapy in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis (OPTIMA) | NCT00420927

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