Lisa Hutton

It is a false belief that steroids are safer than adding steroid sparers in frailty. What were the exclusion criteria and the adverse events rates though? Late recognition of IL-6 related bacterial infections is of real concern in this older frail group outside of oversight of clinical trials teams.

Yes please

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

I learned some stuff about Bluesky I did not know by reading this.

Maybe worth passing it on to others so we can all start getting the full benefit of the 🦋.

SELECT-GCA showing very similar promising numbers for Upadacitinib as GiACTA did for Toci.

Salient points raised re age and other risks of JAKs (well documented)

But the question always remains: does Upa have disease modifying properties in GCA? For that matter - does Toci?

#RheumSky

Please add, thank you.