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Table 3 Determinants of disease activity

From: Characteristics and outcome of children with juvenile dermatomyositis in Cape Town: a cross-sectional study

 

Clinically inactive disease

Clinically active disease

p-value

Number

10

15

 

Sex (F/M)

8/2

8/7

p = 0.228a

Race (Indigenous African/other)

5/5

8/7

P = 1

Age at onset (Median) years

7.8

6.0

p = 0.868a

Time to diagnosis (Median) months

3.5

4.5

p = 0.745a

Duration follow up (Median) months

55.5

49.1

p = 0.28a

Calcinosis (Yes/No)

4/6

6/9

p = 1b

  1. aWilcoxon rank sum test, bFisher exact