Clinical factors affecting quality of the response to Stelara for psoriasis

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So if I read this right people with with a body weight over 80kg and BMI over 25 are likely in the future to be turned down for the drug if the findings of this study are acted upon by dermatologists
Although it was a small scale study ( just 74patients) it would be interesting to see it expanded upon.
Who funded the study was it the makers who would like to see a better % efficacy, and one way to get it is to restrict the use to perfect specimens.

It was by Yoshinori Umezawa, Hidehisa Saeki, Hidemi Nakagawa, and will be published in The Journal of Dermatology. Sorry I know no more at the moment.

I'm 100kg and have not been refused it, I have also been offered a double dose as recommended by Stelara for anyone over 100kg but the double dose was to much for me, so I now have one does every 8 weeks instead of the recommended 12 weeks.

I think they are suggesting it may be something to look into before prescribing Stelara.

That's fine as long as they use it to regulate the dose, and not to deny the use by a smoker who's a bit overweight