Ab­b­Vie's Skyrizi hangs No­var­tis' Cosen­tyx out to dry in head-to-head pso­ri­a­sis study

Skyrizi, a key drug in Ab­b­Vie’s post-Hu­mi­ra fu­ture, has added an­oth­er feath­er to its cap.

On Tues­day, the IL-23 in­hibitor emerged su­pe­ri­or in a head-to-head 327-pa­tient tri­al against No­var­tis’ dom­i­nant Cosen­tyx in pa­tients with mod­er­ate-to-se­vere plaque pso­ri­a­sis.

Da­ta showed Skyrizi in­duced sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er rates of skin clear­ance com­pared to Cosen­tyx, meet­ing the pri­ma­ry goal of su­pe­ri­or­i­ty with at least a 90% im­prove­ment from base­line in the Pso­ri­a­sis Area and Sever­i­ty In­dex (PASI 90) at week 52. Over­all, 87% of Skyrizi-treat­ed pa­tients hit PASI 90, ver­sus 57% of Cosen­tyx-treat­ed pa­tients at the one year mark.

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