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Studies from National Hospital Organization provide new data on psoriasis

Published in Clinical Trials Week, May 10th, 2010

"Incidence of psoriasis vulgaris in Asians is estimated at 0.05-0.3%. Studies in North America and Europe demonstrated that adalimumab, a fully human, recombinant, immunoglobulin G(1) monoclonal antibody, was efficacious and well-tolerated in patients with chronic plaque psoriasis," researchers in Sagamihara, Japan report.

"This 24-week, placebo-controlled study evaluated the efficacy and safety of three different dosing regimens of adalimumab in Japanese patients with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis (n = 169). were randomized to receive adalimumab 40 mg every other week (eow), adalimumab 80-mg loading dose at week 0 followed by adalimumab 40 mg eow starting...

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