Adalimumab Dose Reduction Aiming Low Serum Concentration With Control of Disease Activity

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

78 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-03-01

Study Completion Date

2023-09-11

Brief Summary

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Several prior studies have shown that dose reduction or discontinuation of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-inhibitors, like adalimumab, is possible in substantial number of patients with a rheumatic disease without an increase in disease activity. Prior studies showed that patients with concentrations higher than 5 mg/L are overexposed to adalimumab and can safely reduce the dose. In the first phase of treatment, an adalimumab concentration of 5mg/L is needed to achieve adequate clinical response. However to control disease activity after 28 weeks, lower concentration than 5 mg/L are probably sufficient. Recent published data suggest that concentrations of 0.1-0.5 mg/L are enough to control TNF blockade in this state. Yet, a study which investigates the lowest effective drug serum concentration is missing so far. The hypothesis is that serum adalimumab concentration of 2 mg/L is sufficient to control disease activity.

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Detailed Description

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Biological agents are frequently prescribed to optimize rheumatoid arthritis care. In order to prevent joint destruction it is necessary to maintain remission or low disease activity. Up to now clinicians used to continue the initial treatment regimen to maintain remission or low disease activity. Since biologic therapy is expensive, and is associated with patient burden as dose dependant risk for serious infections, multiple studies have been performed to show that a large proportion of patients with rheumatoid arthritis with stable low disease activity can reduce their dose without relapse of disease. In addition the latest European and American recommendations pose to reduce the dosage or to discontinue the bDMARDs in case of persistent remission or low disease activity. Yet, there are no recommendations on how this should be carried out.

Currently, most clinicians use Disease Activity Score in 28 joints (DAS28) and the Clinical Disease Activity Index (CDAI) to monitor dose reduction strategies. Although disease activity guided dose reduction is safe and cost-effective, a relatively novel strategy is dose reduction using serum drug concentrations (therapeutic drug monitoring). Most biologics are characterized by wide variation in pharmacokinetics between patients, resulting in wide range of drug concentrations when administered at the labeled dose. Therapeutic drug monitoring can be a valuable tool for optimizing the dosage of biopharmaceuticals and improving patient care on individual level. In other autoimmune diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease, it is thought to be superior to empirical dose reduction and is already applied in clinical practice.

The rationale behind therapeutic drug monitoring is that medication dose correlates with serum drug levels and drug concentration correlates with therapeutic effect. The latter notion is demonstrated for adalimumb by Pouw et al. Adalimumab serum concentration in a range 5-8 mg/L is sufficient for adequate response. In the first phase of treatment, drug concentration must be high enough to control immunogenicity. To control disease activity in the 2nd phase (after 28 weeks), lower concentrations than 5 mg/L are probably sufficient. Our study group illustrated in 2018 that reducing adalimumab dose by prolonging the dosing interval with 50%, is non-inferior to continuation in patients with adalimumab levels \> 8mg/L. In addition, recent published data suggest that concentrations of 0.1-0.5 mg/L are enough to control TNF in this phase. Since around 70% of the patients have adalimumab concentration above 5 mg/l, while an adalimumab concentration of 5 mg/L is enough for adequate response (7), a large extent of patients might thus be overexposed.

The hypothesis is that 1/ tapering adalimumab in RA patient doing well after 28 weeks using TDM aiming at 5mg/l (and disease activity measurement) results in maintenance of disease control and lower adalimumab use, and that 2/ tapering to a lower target drug level of 2 mg/L is non inferior to the higher 5mg/l target with respect to disease activity control and safety, and superior in adalimumab reduction. Tapering to achieve these lower targets (for example direct doubling of interval in patients with levels \> 10 mg/L) might result in the lowest effective drug dose.

Disease activity after dose reduction, aiming adalimumab concentration of 2 mg/L or 5 mg/L, in rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with adalimumab for at least 28 weeks and a serum adalimumab concentration above 5 mg/L, will be evaluated in this multi-centre, randomized, single blinded trail. Patients with an adalimumab concentration above 5mg/L will be randomly assigned to dose reduction by extending their dosing interval aiming a drug level of 2 mg/L or aiming a drug level of 5 mg/L. A newly developed algorithm is used to determine the interval prolongation for each patient

Data regarding disease status, functioning, adalimumab serum concentrations, anti-drug antibodies and medical costs will be collected during this study.

Conditions

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with adalimumab for at least 28 weeks and a serum adalimumab concentration above 5 mg/L will be randomly assigned to dose reduction by extending their dosing interval aiming a drug level of 2 mg/L or aiming a drug level of 5 mg/L

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

The participants are kept ignorant of the group to which they have been assigned

Study Groups

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Low serum drug concentration

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming a drug level of 2 mg/L

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Dose reduction to 2mg/L

Intervention Type OTHER

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming drug concentration of 2mg/L

Adalimumab

Intervention Type DRUG

Adalimumab

High serum drug concentration

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming a drug level of 5 mg/L

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Dose reduction to 5mg/L

Intervention Type OTHER

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming drug concentration of 5mg/L

Adalimumab

Intervention Type DRUG

Adalimumab

Interventions

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Dose reduction to 2mg/L

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming drug concentration of 2mg/L

Intervention Type OTHER

Dose reduction to 5mg/L

Adalimumab dose reduction aiming drug concentration of 5mg/L

Intervention Type OTHER

Adalimumab

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Rheumatoid arthritis patient, according to ACR 1987 or ACR/EULAR 2010
* Treated for at least 28 weeks with adalimumab
* Adalimumab trough concentration \>5mg/L
* Who has agreed to participate (written informed consent);
* Age 18 years or older.

Exclusion Criteria

* scheduled surgery during the follow-up of the study or other pre-planned reasons for treatment discontinuation
* life expectancy shorter than follow-up period of the study;
* other disease that might flare if adalimumab is tapered like psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No