| Difficult-to-treat (D2T) is a new concept to define patients with persistence of symptoms and/or signs despite failure of multiple drugs. |
| The EULAR task force recently published the D2T criteria for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, however, a shared definition of D2T patient in PsA is still lacking. |
| Our study firstly evaluated the presence of clinical characteristics of potential D2T PsA patients by applying modified D2T criteria. |
| The presence of fibromyalgia, higher BMI, and comorbidities were associated with potential D2T PsA patients. |
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