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The clinical features of the 66 patients studied are shown in Table 1. Patients with RA were older, had more tender and swollen joints, were rheumatoid factor positive, and were more likely to be on disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy than were non-RA patients.
Currently, MTX is the most widely used disease-modifying antirheumatic drug for the treatment of RA.
Etanercept (sTNFR:Fc) and infliximab (chimeric anti-TNF monoclonal antibody) have been shown to be efficacious in the treatment of patients with RA for whom treatment with at least one disease-modifying antirheumatic drug had previously failed [ 11, 12]; both of these biologicals have been approved by regulatory agencies for the treatment of patients with RA.
Only a small minority of SNP pairs are efficient enough to detect a strong disease-modifying SNP in the TNF gene region.
All patients had to have had at least one failed trial of a disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) and had to have at least 10 painful and 10 swollen joints at entry.