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Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease that primarily affects middle-aged individuals but is increasingly prevalent among the elderly due to longer life expectancies. Treating elderly onset RA (EORA) is challenging for clinicians because of unique disease characteristics, comorbidities, polypharmacy, age-related physiological changes, and limited studies on the safety and efficacy of biological therapies in this population. This review aims to evaluate the use of various biological therapies in elderly RA patients.
Areas Covered: This narrative review examines various aspects of RA in the elderly using published literature, randomized control trials, meta-analyses, and recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and The European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR).
Expert Opinion: In EORA patients, the initiation of biological therapy is often delayed. Methotrexate remains the first-line treatment for both EORA and young onset RA (YORA). The combination of methotrexate and biological treatment shows comparable safety and efficacy in both EORA and YORA, except for rituximab, which is less effective in patients over 75. For elderly RA patients, biological (b-) disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are preferred as the first advanced therapy over targeted synthetic (ts-) DMARDs due to their superior safety profile.
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