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Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) has an incidence of approximately 1000/10^6 for persons more than 50 years. Treatment with prednisolone carries several significant adverse effects, and it is therefore essential to taper prednisolone as fast as possible. Systematic treatment strategies (treat-to-target) is the most important improvement of disease management for other rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in the last decades. Thus, the purpose is to investigate benefits and harms associated with a nurce led systematic prednisolone taper strategy at the department of rheumatology compared to individual treatment by discretion of the general practitioner. It is a 1-year open label randomised trial with a 1-year extension in 120 treatment naïve patients with PMR.


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NCT number NCT05636501
Study type Interventional
Source Aarhus University Hospital
Contact Kresten Keller, MD, PhD
Phone +45 40384984
Email krekel@rm.dk
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date January 12, 2023
Completion date November 2026

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