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Table 1 (abstract P004). Patient characteristics

From: Proceedings of the 25th European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress (PReS 2018)

 

Patients with pulmonary complications

Patients without pulmonary complications

P-value

Patient number

65

849

 

Observation years total (IQR)

7.6 (4.3-10.2)

5.1 (2.4-9.1)

0.002

Age diagnosis SJIA (IQR)

3.7 (2.3-5.6)

5.3 (2.9-9.3)

<0.001

Patients with non-pulmonary AE/ESI

56 (86.2%)

287 (33.8%)

<0.001

Synthetic DMARDs ever

52 (80.0%)

690 (81.3%)

0.745

Anti-TNF ever

25 (38.5%)

307 (36.2%)

0.691

Anti-IL1 ever

29 (44.6%)

332 (39.1%)

0.430

Tocilizumab ever

36 (55.4%)

345 (40.6%)

0.026

Rituximab ever

20 (30.8%)

49 (5.8%)

<0.001

  1. Values are the number of patients, unless stated otherwise. Continuous variables are analysed by a Mann-Witney-U test, asymp. Sig. (2-tailed). For dichotomous variables Fisher’s exact sig. (2-sided) is used