Belimumab concentrations and immunogenicity in relation to drug effectiveness and safety in SLE within a Swedish real-world setting
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Studies supporting therapeutic drug monitoring to biopharmaceuticals in SLE are scarce. We aimed to assess anti-drug antibody (ADA) occurrence in belimumab-treated SLE patients and associations between belimumab concentrations and clinical response, serological outcomes and adverse events. METHODS: We included 100 patients treated with intravenous belimumab. Clinical data and biological samples were collected at baseline and months 3, 6, 12 and 24. Belimumab levels were determined by quantitative sandwich ELISA, and ADA by an acid-dissociation radioimmunoassay. Clinical activity was evaluated with the SLEDAI-2000 (SLEDAI-2K), revised SLE activity measure (SLAM-R) and physician's global assessment (PhGA). Serological markers included C3, C4 and anti-dsDNA. We performed cross-sectional Spearman's rank correlation analyses, and longitudinal analyses using generalized estimating equations. RESULTS: Belimumab concentrations varied widely (median: 25.8; interquartile range [IQR]: 20.9-43.5 μg/ml) but were stable over time at the group level. Pre-existing ADA was detected in two patients, but no patient developed ADA during follow-up. Belimumab levels moderately correlated with SLEDAI-2K (ρ: -0.37; P = 0.003) and PhGA (ρ: -0.41; P = 0.005) at month 6, while longitudinal analysis revealed a very weak association with SLEDAI-2K (β: -0.10; SE: 0.05; P = 0.031) and a weak association with SLAM-R (β: -0.32; SE: 0.13; P = 0.014). Despite moderate correlations between belimumab levels and serological markers at month 6, there were no associations in longitudinal analysis. There was no relationship between belimumab levels and adverse events. CONCLUSION: Belimumab yielded no immunogenicity. Belimumab levels were modestly associated with clinical activity but not with serological activity or adverse events.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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 teacher head, not a consensus.
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