Long-term Safety and Efficacy of ABP 501 in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02114931 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : April 15, 2014
Results First Posted : April 24, 2017
Last Update Posted : April 24, 2017
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Arthritis, Rheumatoid | Biological: ABP 501 | Phase 3 |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 467 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | An Open-label, Single-arm Extension Study to Evaluate the Long-term Safety and Efficacy of ABP 501 in Subjects With Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis |
Study Start Date : | April 2014 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | April 2016 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | April 2016 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: ABP 501
Participants received ABP 501 40 mg subcutaneously (SC) every other week for up to 18 months.
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Biological: ABP 501
Solution for subcutaneous injection in a syringe containing 40 mg/0.8 mL ABP 501
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- Number of Participants With Adverse Events [ Time Frame: From the first dose of study drug in the extension study to 28 days following the last dose; 72 weeks ]
Adverse events (AEs) were graded for severity according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.03 according to the following scale:
1 = mild; 2 = moderate; 3 = severe; 4 = life-threatening; 5 = fatal. A treatment-related AE is defined as an event where the answer to the question "is there a reasonable possibility that the event may have been caused by the Investigational Medicinal Product" was yes.
A serious adverse event is defined as an AE that meets at least 1 of the following serious criteria:
- fatal
- life threatening (places the subject at immediate risk of death)
- requires inpatient hospitalization or prolongation of existing hospitalization
- results in persistent or significant disability/incapacity
- congenital anomaly/birth defect
- other medically important serious event.
- Number of Participants With Grade ≥ 3 Hematology and Chemistry Laboratory Results [ Time Frame: From the first dose of study drug in the extension study to 28 days following the last dose; 72 weeks ]
Laboratory results were graded according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.03 according to the following scale:
1 = mild; 2 = moderate; 3 = severe; 4 = life-threatening; 5 = fatal.
- Percentage of Participants Who Developed Antibodies to ABP 501 [ Time Frame: Up to week 72 ]
Two validated assays were used to detect the presence of anti-drug antibodies. All samples were first tested in an electrochemiluminescence (ECL)-based bridging immunoassay to detect anti-drug antibodies against ABP 501 (Binding Antibody Assay). Samples confirmed to be positive for binding antibodies were subsequently tested in a non-cell based bioassay to determine neutralizing activity against ABP 501. If a sample was positive for binding antibodies and demonstrated neutralizing activity at the same time point, the sample was defined as positive for neutralizing antibodies.
Preexisting antibody positive indicates participants with a positive result at baseline of the extension study. Developing antibody positive indicates participants with a negative or no result at baseline of the extension study who were positive at any time point post-baseline during the extension study.
- Percentage of Participants With an American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20 Response [ Time Frame: Parent study baseline, extension study baseline and weeks 4, 24, 48, and 70 ]
A participant was a responder if the following 3 criteria for improvement from Baseline of the parent study were met:
- ≥ 20% improvement in tender joint count;
- ≥ 20% improvement in swollen joint count; and
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≥ 20% improvement in at least 3 of the 5 following parameters:
- Patient's assessment of pain (measured on a 100 mm visual analog scale [VAS]);
- Patient's global assessment of disease activity (measured on a likert scale from 0 to 10);
- Physician's global assessment of disease activity (measured on a likert scale from 0 to 10);
- Patient's self-assessment of physical function (Health Assessment Questionnaire - Disability Index [HAQ-DI]);
- C-Reactive Protein level.
- Change From Parent Study Baseline in Disease Activity Score 28-C-reactive Protein (DAS28-CRP) [ Time Frame: Parent study baseline, extension study baseline and weeks 4, 24, 48 and 70 ]
The DAS28-CRP is a composite score to measure disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, derived from the following variables:
- The number of swollen and tender joints assessed using the 28-joint count;
- C-reactive protein (CRP) level
- Patient's global assessment of disease activity assessed on a score from 0 to 100 transformed from the result measured on a horizontal scale from 0 (no RA activity at all) to 10 (worst RA activity imaginable).
The DAS28-CRP score ranges from approximately zero to ten. Higher DAS28-CRP scores indicate higher disease activity.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 81 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject was randomized into protocol 20120262 (NCT01970475) and completed the week 26 visit
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subject experienced a serious adverse event (SAE) or an adverse event (AE) in the 20120262 study that could cause extension treatment to be detrimental
- Subject completed study 20120262 but cannot be dosed within 4 weeks of the week 26 visit of study 20120262
- Current infection requiring the use of oral or intravenous antibiotics
Other Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02114931

Study Director: | Amgen MD | Amgen |
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Responsible Party: | Amgen |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02114931 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
20130258 2013-004654-13 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | April 15, 2014 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | April 24, 2017 |
Last Update Posted: | April 24, 2017 |
Last Verified: | February 2017 |
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