Efficacy and safety of the ustekinumab biosimilar ABP 654 in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis: a randomized double-blinded active-controlled comparative clinical study over 52 weeks
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: ABP 654 is a biosimilar to ustekinumab reference product (RP). ABP 654 has been shown to have an amino acid sequence identical to ustekinumab RP and they are similar in structure, purity and potency, as well as clinical pharmacokinetics and safety in healthy volunteers. OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacy, safety and immunogenicity of ABP 654 and ustekinumab RP in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis in a randomized double-blinded active-controlled single-transition comparative clinical study (NCT04607980). METHODS: Patients were randomized 1 : 1 to receive ABP 654 or ustekinumab RP at a weight-based dose of 45 mg or 90 mg administered subcutaneously on day 1 (week 0), week 4 and week 16. At week 28, patients with a ≥ 75% improvement in Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI) were re-randomized such that those initially randomized to ABP 654 continued to receive ABP 654 and those initially randomized to ustekinumab RP were re-randomized to either continue on ustekinumab RP or transition to ABP 654. The primary efficacy endpoint was percentage improvement in PASI from baseline to week 12. Secondary endpoints included additional efficacy measurements, as well as an assessment of adverse events and antidrug antibodies. RESULTS: At week 12, the observed mean (SD) percentage improvement in PASI from baseline was 81.9 (19.9) and 81.9 (19.6) for the ABP 654 and ustekinumab RP treatment groups, respectively. The point estimate of the mean difference in percentage PASI improvement from baseline to week 12 between the treatment groups was 0.14 with a two-sided 90% confidence interval (CI) of (-2.6 to 2.9), well within the prespecified similarity margin of (-10 to 10). In addition, throughout the study, secondary efficacy analyses and safety and immunogenicity profiles were similar across the treatment groups. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that ABP 654 and ustekinumab RP are clinically similar in efficacy, safety and immunogenicity in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. Further, a single transition from ustekinumab RP to ABP 654 at week 28 had no impact on the efficacy, safety or immunogenicity results for the remainder of the 52-week study, supporting a conclusion of no clinically meaningful differences between ABP 654 and ustekinumab RP.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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