Cost of medicamentous therapy and clinical characteristics of patients with late stage rheumatoid arthritis and arterial hypertension


DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/therapy.2024.7.74-80

Chulkov V.S., Okonenko T.I., Khrutsky A.K., Zhmaylova S.V.

Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Veliky Novgorod
Abstract. Last decades healthcare costs have risen everywhere. Currently, a significant number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) receive therapy with targeted synthetic disease-modifying basic anti-inflammatory drugs (tsDMARDs). In connection with inflation processes in Russia, it seems necessary to have objective information about the true cost of treatment of patients with RA and concomitant arterial hypertension (AH) receiving tsDMARDs.
The aim: to give clinical characteristic and calculate the cost of medicamentous therapy in late-stage RA patients having arterial hypertension.
Material and methods. 41 case history of patients with late stage RA and arterial hypertension was studied. The diagnosis of RA was based on 2010 ACR/EULAR criteria. Average hospital day was 10.2 ± 0.37 days. In the frames of the study, the clinical characteristic of this patient group was given, an analysis of used drugs was carried out, and the cost of medicamentous therapy was calculated. Information about the cost of medicines was received by us in 2022 from invoices from the supplier in day hospital.
Results. In 88.89% of cases of patients with RA it was revealed from 3 to 5 comorbid diseases. All patients were diagnosed with arterial hypertension. Doctors prescribed tsDMARDs as basic therapy; 16 drugs were used in various regimens during treatment. The total cost of a course of therapy per 100 persons was 19,937.31 rubles, with 10.7% of the costs falling on drugs for the control of arterial hypertension.
Conclusion. Of the 16 drugs used in the treatment of late-stage RA patients with arterial hypertension, all, with the exception of nicotinic acid, are included in the list of vital and essential drugs. Estimation of the cost of modern medicamentous therapy for RA with hypertension is a necessary step to optimize the costs of RA treatment in the context of the high use of hospital-substituting technologies in the treatment of patients.

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About the Autors


Vasily S. Chulkov, MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), professor of the Department of internal diseases, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. Address: 173003, Veliky Novgorod, 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Petersburgskaya St.
E-mail: vschulkov@rambler.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0952-6856
Tatyana I. Okonenko, MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), associate professor, head of the Department of general pathology, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. Address: 173003, Veliky Novgorod, 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Petersburgskaya St.
E-mail: Tatyana.Okonenko@novsu.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7431-3777
Alexander K. Khrutsky, MD, assistant at the Department of pharmacy, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. Address: 173003, Veliky Novgorod, 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Petersburgskaya St.
E-mail: khrutsky@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5372-4350
Svetlana V. Zhmaylova, MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), head of the Department of additional professional training and outpatient therapy, Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. Address: 173003, Veliky Novgorod, 41 Bolshaya Sankt-Petersburgskaya St.
E-mail: Svetlana.Zhmaylova@novsu.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7754-5338


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