Biological treatment in elderly and young patients with ankylosing spondylitis: TURKBIO real-life data results.

Sadettin Uslu Semih Gulle Özkan Urak Gercek Sen Hüseyin Ediz Dalkılıç Abdurrahman Soner Şenel Servet Akar Güzide Nevsun İnanç Ayşe Cefle Aydan Köken Avşar Servet Yolbas Sema Yilmaz Ozgül Soysal Gündüz İsmail Sari Ahmet Merih Birlik Nurullah Akkoc Fatoş Önen

Published in: Archives of rheumatology (2024)

Research in the TURKBIO cohort reveals that both older and younger patients with AS exhibited similar disease activity levels with comparable treatment approaches. Moreover, the results of TNFi treatments in elderly patients were the same as those observed in younger patients, with no notable increase in safety concerns.

Keyphrases

ankylosing spondylitis
disease activity
rheumatoid arthritis
systemic lupus erythematosus
middle aged
rheumatoid arthritis patients
electronic health record
machine learning
data analysis
smoking cessation