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Table 3 Treatment terminations for adverse events in original and re-employed methotrexate therapies

From: Methotrexate in rheumatoid arthritis is frequently effective, even if re-employed after a previous failure

  

Re-employed course

Total

  

No adverse event

Adverse event

 

Original Course

No adverse event

45 (13.7 ± 5.2/18.4 ± 5.3)

10 (10.5 ± 3.8/13.5 ± 4.4)

55 (13.1 ± 5.1/17.5 ± 5.5)

 

Adverse event

16 (10.2 ± 3.6/14.8 ± 6.3)

8 (8.6 ± 1.3/9.1 ± 2.9)

24 (9.7 ± 3.1/12.9 ± 6.2)

Total

61 (12.8 ± 5.0/17.5 ± 5.7)

18 (9.7 ± 3.2/11.5 ± 4.4)

79 (12.1 ± 4.8/16.1 ± 6.0)

  1. The numbers in parentheses are the doses in the original methotrexate/re-employed methotrexate courses (mean ± standard deviation) in mg/week). The percentage of patients who were concordant for the presence or absence of adverse events was 66.6% (P = 0.327, by McNemar test).