Comparative risk of cardiovascular events with biologic and synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Arthritis Care & Research Mar 21, 2019
Singh S, et al. - In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), researchers assessed the consequences of tumor necrosis factor-α inhibitors (TNFi), non-TNFi biologic, and conventional synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (csDMARDs) on cardiovascular risk in this meta-analysis. They noted the association of tocilizumab with a reduced risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) vs TNFi, csDMARDs were associated with a higher risk of MACE. They also observed that csDMARDs were correlated with increased risk of stroke vs TNFi with no variation in the risk of stroke between different biologics.
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