Differences between men and women with nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis: clinical characteristics and treatment effectiveness in a real-life prospective cohort

Table 6 Sensitivity analysis: response/tolerance analysis at 1 year excluding patients having stopped TNFi due to other reasons than ineffectiveness and adverse events and imputing patients having discontinued the TNFi because of remission as being responders

Outcome	N	OR	95% CI	p
ASAS20	89	0.20	0.06; 0.62	0.008
ASAS40	89	0.25	0.07; 0.78	0.02
BASDAI50	89	0.24	0.07; 0.72	0.01
ASDAS improvement ≥ 1.1	78	0.32	0.10; 0.93	0.04
ASDAS < 2.1	82	0.26	0.06; 0.91	0.04
ASDAS improvement ≥ 2	78	0.08	0.01; 0.43	0.006
ASDAS < 1.3	82	0.14	0.02; 0.62	0.02

Analyses are adjusted for diagnostic delay, MASES, BASDAI, and BMI. ASAS20 and ASAS40 20% and 40% improvement according to the ASAS criteria, respectively; ASDAS Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score; BASDAI50 50% improvement in the BASDAI; nr-axSpA nonradiographic axial spondyloarthritis; TNF tumor necrosis factor

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