Induction and Maintenance Treatment With Upadacitinib Improves Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis: Phase 3 Study Results.

Induction treatment with UPA 45 mg significantly improved HRQoL measures. A significantly higher percentage of patients who responded to induction treatment with UPA maintained clinically meaningful improvements consistently across a wide range of HRQoL outcomes after 52 weeks of maintenance therapy with UPA (15 mg and 30 mg) compared with placebo. (ClinicalTrials.gov, Numbers: NCT02819635, NCT03653026).