BackgroundMusculoskeletal (MSK) diseases are expected to have a growing impact worldwide.ObjectiveTo analyse the worldwide burden of MSK diseases from 2000 to 2015.MethodsDisability-adjusted life years (DALYs), which combines the years of life lost (YLLs) and the years lived with disability (YLDs), were extracted for 183 countries from the WHO Global Health Estimates Database. We analysed the median proportion of DALYS, YLLs and YLDs for MSK diseases (ICD-10: M00–M99) among the 23 WHO categories of diseases. Mixed models were built to assess temporal changes.ResultsWorldwide, the total number of MSK DALYs increased significantly from 80,225,634.6 in 2000 to 107,885,832.6 in 2015 (p < 0.001), with the total number of MSK YLDs increasing from 77,377,709.4 to 103,817,908.4 (p = 0.0008) and MSK diseases being the second cause of YLDs worldwide. YLLs due to MSK diseases increased from 2,847,925.2 to 4,067,924.2 (p = 0.03). In 2015, the median proportion of DALYs attributed to MSK diseases was 6.66% (IQR: 5.30 – 7.88) in Europe versus 4.66% (3.98 – 5.59) in the Americas (p < 0.0001 vs Europe), 4.17% (3.14 – 6.25) in Asia (p < 0.0001), 4.14% (2.65 – 5.57) in Oceania (p = 0.0008) and 1.33% (1.03 – 1.92) in Africa (p < 0.0001). We observed a significant correlation (r = 0.85, p < 0.0001) between the proportion of MSK DALYs and the gross domestic product per capita for the year 2015.ConclusionsThe burden of MSK diseases increased significantly between 2000 and 2015 and is high in Europe. These results are crucial to health professionals and policy makers to implement future health plan adjustments for MSK diseases.
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BackgroundIn about 10% of patients, the immune response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) exceeds the anti-tumor response and leads to autoimmune complications (immune-related Adverse Events, irAEs), which can sometimes be severe and require the use of targeted therapies. Two studies recently reported a deleterious impact of targeted therapies on the survival of patients with irAEs.ObjectivesTo compare overall survival in patients treated or not with a biological or targeted synthetic DMARD (b/tsDMARD) for an hospitalized irAE.MethodsAll adults included in the French national health database who initiated an ICI between 2014 and 2019, for any type of cancer, were retrospectively analyzed. Follow-up was analyzed between 2013 to 2020, to have a one-year look-back and one year look-ahead period. The occurrence of an irAE during ICI treatment or in the 12 months after its last administration was defined by the combination of (1) hospitalization for a cause evoking an irAE of any nature, except endocrinopathy, and (2) either the discontinuation of the ICI, or the initiation of corticosteroids, or of a conventional DMARD or a b/tsDMARD, or a new recognition as a long-term disabling condition (LTD) for an autoimmune or inflammatory disease. Patients with irAE treated with b/tsDMARD were matched (1:3) at the time they initiated b/tsDMARD to those who did not initiate b/tsDMARD, using a dynamic propensity score calculated every 30 days. The propensity score included gender, age, type of cancer, type of ICI, time from cancer to initiation of ICI and from initiation of ICI to irAE, use of corticosteroids, hospitalization in intensive care unit, type of irAE, number of LTDs, Charlson’s index and FDep social deprivation index. Overall survival was compared between the two groups using a Cox model. A sensibility analysis restricted to gastrointestinal and rheumatic irAEs was performed.Results71,723 patients (men: 66.0%, median age: 66 years) initiating an ICI were analyzed. An hospitalized irAE occurred in 7883 patients (11.0%). irAE occurred at a median time of 72 days after ICI initiation, and the 4 more frequent were gastrointestinal (inflammatory colitis, 4.7%), cardiologic (2.0%), rheumatic (1.8%), and pulmonary (1.7%). Median patient follow-up after irAE was 356 days. Mortality after irAE was 4.8% at 1 month and 11.3% at 3 months.After matching, 325 patients were treated for an irAE with a b/tsMDARD (Infliximab (57.7%), Rituximab (25.5%), Tocilizumab (4.2%), Vedolizumab (3.3%), others (9.3%)), including 257 and 40 for a gastrointestinal or rheumatic irAE, respectively. They were compared to 975 patients who were not treated with a b/tsDMARD. The median time from ICI initiation to irAE was well balanced by matching (93 versus 92 days, respectively). ICI was discontinued in 25.4% of b/tsDMARD treated patients patients within 3 months after the irAE, compared to 20.9% in the group not treated with a b/tsDMARD.Mortality after irAEs was 6.8% and 7.6% at 3 months, respectively, and 16.0% and 17.9% at 6 months, respectively. Overall survival whatever the type of irAE did not significantly differ in patients treated with or without a b/tsDMARD (HR=0.87, CI=[0.74, 1.03]), or in patients treated for a rheumatic irAE (HR=0.80, CI=[0.51, 1.25]). Overall survival was significantly improved in gastrointestinal irAE in patients treated with a b/tsDMARD compared to patients not treated with a b/tsDMARD (HR=0.80, CI=[0.66, 0.97]).ConclusionIn one of the largest study to date in terms of number of hospitalized irAEs and number of b/tsDMARD-treated patients, targeted therapies were not associated with a worse prognosis and significantly improved overall survival in patients with induced colitis, the most frequent and one of the most severe irAEs.Figure 1.Overall survival in days in patients treated with a b/tsDMARD (blue) or not (red)AcknowledgementsThis analysis was planned in the setting of the PRAISE study, which received an unrestricted grant from BMS. BMS had no access to data, results and interpretation of the present analysis.Disclosure of InterestsNathanaël Sedmak: None declared, Eden SEBBAG: None declared, Pierre Tran Ba Loc: None declared, Thibaut Fabacher: None declared, Thibault Bahougne: None declared, Cécile Arnold: None declared, Guillaume Desjeux: None declared, Hervé Servy: None declared, Nicolas Meyer: None declared, Erik Sauleau: None declared, Raphaèle Seror: None declared, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg Consultant of: Abbvie, BMS, Gilead, Galapagos, Lilly, Janssen, Roche Chugai, Pfizer, Sanofi, UCB, Grant/research support from: Abbvie, BMS, Pfizer.
BackgroundPotential associations between targeted therapies and a new cancer in patients with an inflammatory arthritis (IA) and a history of malignant disease are a frequent concern in daily rheumatology practice. IA and/or immunomodulatory drugs might confer a specific risk of malignancy. No evidence-based framework has been proposed to guide clinicians on the benefit/risk balance when initiating or reinitiating a targeted therapy (bDMARDs/tsDMARDs) in this context.ObjectivesThis initiative aimed to develop points to consider (PTC) to assist rheumatologists.when initiating/reinitiating a targeted therapy in the context of a previous malignancy.MethodsFollowing EULAR standardised operating procedures, a task force of 2 patient representatives.and 25 experts (comprising 2 methodologists, 2 EMEUNET members, 1 oncologist.and 20 rheumatologists) first met to define the research questions for a systematic literature review concerning patients with IA and a history of cancer and other relevant information for consideration including: incidence of cancer in targeted therapy-treated patients and no history of cancer, translational research in onco-rheumatology, management with targeted therapy of immune-related adverse events of checkpoint inhibitors. In a second meeting, the task force formulated.the overarching principles and the PTC.ResultsThe group formulated 5 overarching principles and 8 PTC relevant to the initiation of targeted therapies in patients with IA and a history of cancer. Major themes included a) the need to assess.the individualized risk of cancer recurrence based on the characteristics of the patient, the cancer and the underlying disease; b) the importance of engaging with specialists caring for the cancer and.to define treatment based on a shared decision between the patient and the rheumatologist;c) the possibility to initiate without delay an appropriate targeted therapy for the treatment of.the IA in patients in remission of their cancer; d) the proposal to prefer anti-cytokine bDMARDs.over other treatment options in patients with history of solid cancer and to prefer.B cell depleting therapy in patients with a history of lymphoma; e) the proposal to use JAK inhibitors and abatacept with caution, and only in the absence of therapeutic alternatives, based on.the significant increase in cancer incidence in patients without a history of cancer, with tofacitinib compared to anti-TNF in a randomized clinical trial, and a modest but significant increase.with abatacept compared to other bDMARDs in some observational studies.ConclusionThe 2023 EULAR Points to Consider provide guidance on the management of targeted therapies.in patients with IA and a history of cancer. The research agenda highlights the need for studies.to evaluate targeted therapies other than TNF inhibitors and anti-CD20 to address the evidence gaps in this setting.REFERENCES:NIL.Acknowledgements:NIL.Disclosure of InterestsEden Sebbag: None declared, Kim Lauper: None declared, Juan Molina Collada: None declared, Daniel Aletaha: None declared, Johan Askling: None declared, Karolina Benesova: None declared, Heidi Bertheussen: None declared, Samuel Bitoun: None declared, Ertugrul Cagri Bolek: None declared, Gerd Rüdiger Burmester: None declared, Helena Canhão: None declared, Katerina Chatzidionysiou: None declared, Jeffrey Curtis: None declared, François-Xavier Danlos: None declared, vera guimaraes: None declared, Merete Lund Hetland: None declared, Florenzo Iannone: None declared, Marie Kostine: None declared, Tue Wenzel Kragstrup: None declared, Tore K. Kvien Speakers bureau: Grünenthal, Sandoz, UCB, Consultant of: AbbVie, Amgen, Celltrion, Gilead, Novartis, Pfizer, Sandoz, UCB, Grant/research support from: AbbVie, Amgen, BMS, Galapagos, Novartis, Pfizer, UCB, Anne Regierer: None declared, Hendrik Schulze-Koops: None declared, Lucía Silva-Fernández Speakers bureau: Lilly, BMS, Abbvie, Novartis, Janssen., Consultant of: Novartis, MSD, Sanofi, Janssen, Pfizer, Zoltan Szekanecz: None declared, Maya H Buch: None declared, Axel Finckh Speakers bureau: AbbVie BMS, Pfizer Eli-Lilly Sandoz, Consultant of: AbbVie, Novartis, Pfizer, MSD, Lilly, Grant/research support from: AbbVie, BMS, Galapagos, Lilly, Pfizer, Jacques-Eric Gottenberg Consultant of: Abbvie, BMS, Galpagos, Gilead, Lily, Pfizer, Roche Chugai, Sanofi, UCB, Grant/research support from: Abbvie, BMS, Pfizer.
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