Azade Amini Kadijani

3. Basic and Molecular Epidemiology of Gastrointestinal Disorders Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid Beheshti University of medical sciences, Tehran, Iran

[ 1 ] - Risk of infection in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis taking denosumab and bDMARDS

Background: There is no clear consensus regarding the potential of denosumab for increasing the risk of infection in patients who concurrently receive biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs). In this study, we compared the rate of infection in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis who received concurrent bDMARDs and denosumab with those who received bDMARDs alone.   ...