New hope for arthritis treatment? Preliminary findings suggest that a type of rheumatoid arthritis drug may lower dementia risk in some patients.
In the end, only TNF drugs were found to be associated with a lower risk of developing dementia, and only among those
"While not necessarily surprising, these new findings are interesting and point to places for future researchers to look for changes in dementia risk," she added.and give rise to immune system disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis. Patients included in the current analysis were aged 65 and up. Just under 20% were being treated for rheumatoid arthritis with a JAK inhibitor, while a little more than one-quarter were receiving an IL-6 inhibitor medication. The remainder — a little over half — received a TNF inhibitor drug.
And this time around, the team also initially found no apparent connection between any of the three drug classes and a lower risk for Alzheimer's/dementia.
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