An Efficacy and Safety of CNTO 1959 (Guselkumab) in Participants With Moderate to Severe Plaque-type Psoriasis

Exclusion Criteria

• •Has a history of or current signs or symptoms of severe, progressive, or uncontrolled cardiac, vascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, neurologic, hematologic, psychiatric, or metabolic disturbances
• •Has unstable cardiovascular disease, defined as a recent clinical deterioration (example, unstable angina, atrial fibrillation) in the last 3 months or a cardiac hospitalization within the last 3 months before Screening
• •Currently has a malignancy or has a history of malignancy within 5 years before screening (with the exception of a nonmelanoma skin cancer that has been adequately treated with no evidence of recurrence for at least 3 months before the first study drug administration or cervical carcinoma in situ that has been treated with no evidence of recurrence for at least 3 months before Screening
• •Has a history of lymphoproliferative disease, including lymphoma; a history of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS); or signs and symptoms suggestive of possible lymphoproliferative disease, such as lymphadenopathy and/or splenomegaly
• •Has a history of chronic or recurrent infectious disease, including but not limited to chronic renal infection, chronic chest infection (eg, bronchiectasis), recurrent urinary tract infection (recurrent pyelonephritis or chronic nonremitting cystitis), fungal infection (mucocutaneous candidiasis), or open, draining, or infected skin wounds or ulcers