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Update on methotrexate as the anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis.

@article{Pincus2013UpdateOM,
  title={Update on methotrexate as the anchor drug for rheumatoid arthritis.},
  author={Theodore Pincus and Kathryn A. Gibson and Isabel Castrej{\'o}n},
  journal={Bulletin of the Hospital for Joint Disease},
  year={2013},
  volume={71 Suppl 1},
  pages={
          S9-19
        }
}
Methotrexate has become the "anchor drug" for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), taken by many more patients than any other disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) or biological agent. Methotrexate has greater efficacy and effectiveness than any other non-biologic DMARD, and greater tolerability and safety than other DMARDs. The efficacy of methotrexate is comparable to biologic agents in parallel clinical trials of DMARD-naïve patients. Adequate responses to methotrexate monotherapy or… 
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