May 2025

Cardiovascular disease risk in patients with psoriasis receiving biologics targeting TNF-α, IL-12/23, IL-17, and IL-23: A population-based retrospective cohort study

PLoS Med 22(4): e1004591 DOI: org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004591

Lin et al. compared the risk of CVD in patients with psoriasis who were prescribed biologics or oral therapies and assessed the association between different classes of biologics and CVD risk. Patients with psoriasis-prescribed biologics exhibited a reduced risk of incident CVDs compared with those receiving oral antipsoriatic drugs.

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Appendicectomy plus standard medical therapy versus standard medical therapy alone for maintenance of remission in ulcerative colitis (ACCURE): a pragmatic, open-label, international, randomised trial

Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2025; 10: 550–61 DOI: 10.1016/S2468-1253(25)00026-3

The ACCURE Study Group aimed to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of laparoscopic appendicectomy in maintaining remission in patients with UC. Authors showed that appendicectomy is a viable and safe strategy for reducing the relapse rate in patients with UC compared with standard medical therapy at 1 year, offering a potential addition to standard medical therapies.

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The effect of ixekizumab treatment on MRI sacroiliac joint structural lesions in patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: post-hoc analysis of a 52-week, randomised, placebo-controlled trial with an active reference arm

Lancet Rheumatol 2025;7: e314–22 DOI: 10.1016/S2665-9913(24)00312-6

Maksymowych et al. evaluated the effect of ixekizumab and adalimumab versus placebo over 52 weeks on structural lesions in sacroiliac joints assessed by MRI in patients naive to biological DMARDs with radiographic axSpA from the COAST-V study. The authors reported a decrease in erosion and increase in backfill at Week 16 with further reductions in erosion and increases in backfill occurring at Week 52 in patients receiving ixekizumab.

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Efficacy and safety of zimlovisertib, ritlecitinib and tofacitinib, alone and in combination, in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis and an inadequate response to methotrexate

Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 doi: 10.1002/art.43184 Epub ahead of print

Phase 2 study data show that zimlovisertib + tofacitinib was more effective than tofacitinib alone, in patients with moderate-to-severe RA and an inadequate response to MTX.

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Incidence of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with Janus kinase inhibitors compared to biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs: data from an international collaboration of registries (the "JAK-pot" study)

Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 doi: 10.1002/art.43188 Epub ahead of print

Data from an international collaboration of registries show no evidence of an increase in CV events during the first 2 years of use with JAKi, compared to TNFi, in the general RA population.

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April 2025

Interleukin‑23 versus Interleukin‑17 Inhibitors in Preventing Incidental Psoriatic Arthritis in Patients with Psoriasis: A Real‑World Comparison From the TriNetX US Collaborative Network

BioDrugs. 2025 Mar;39(2):297-306 doi: 10.1007/s40259-025-00705-5

IL23is are associated with a lower risk of PsA incidence compared to IL17is in PsO patients, particularly in specific age, sex, and ethnic groups according to the latest real-world research from Yu S, et al.

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Efficacy and safety of tildrakizumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis of the scalp: Week 52 results from a phase 3b, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2025;92(4):816-824 doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2024.12.018

The efficacy and safety of tildrakizumab for the treatment of scalp psoriasis are maintained for up to 52 weeks of treatment in a clinical trial setting.

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Corticosteroid-sparing effects of risankizumab efficacy and safety in patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis

J Crohns Colitis. 2025;19(4):jjaf025 doi: 10.1093/ecco-jcc/jjaf025

Reinisch W, et al. report that the efficacy of RZB induction therapy is independent of CS use, with high rates of CS-free outcomes observed in the overall population and among patients with baseline CS use.

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Major adverse cardiovascular, thromboembolic and malignancy events in the filgotinib rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis clinical development programmes

RMD Open. 2025;11:e005033. doi: 10.1136/rmdopen-2024-005033.

Mariette et al. investigated the long-term safety of filgotinib with regard to MACE, VTE and malignancy across RA and UC clinical trial populations. Rates of these events remained low overall, with some increases observed in patients aged 65 years and older.

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