Table 2.

Percent decrease of TG levels and percentage of patients to reach the target TG levels on each day in n-TPE and TPE groups

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 5
Percent decrease of TG levels on each days
Before matched
n-TPE group	57.00 {24.00, 72.00} n = 37	54.00 {42.75, 72.00} n = 34	67.00 {55.00, 78.00} n = 31	77.50 {63.25, 84.75} n = 56
TPE group	55.00 {31.50, 74.50} n = 117	70.00 {57.75, 79.00} n = 94	75.50 {61.00, 80.75} n = 100	80.00 {68.25, 86.00} n = 96
P value by Mann–Whitney	0.906	0.001	0.143	0.185
After matched
n-TPE group	60.00 {34.00, 74.50} n = 29	58.50 {41.50, 75.00} n = 22	68.50 {55.25, 82.00} n = 24	78.00 {68.00, 85.25} n = 46
TPE group	56.00 {28.50, 68.75} n = 60	69.00 {55.75, 79.00} n = 54	68.50 {55.50, 82.00} n = 54	79.00 {65.50, 86.00} n = 43
P value by Mann–Whitney	0.367	0.077	0.918	0.736
Percentage of patients to reach the target TG levels
Before matched
n-TPE group	21.62% (n = 37)	23.53% (n = 34)	45.16% n = 31)	62.50% (n = 56)
TPE group	26.09% (n = 115)	57.89% (n = 95)	63.27% (n = 98)	71.88% (n = 96)
P value by Pearson χ2 test	0.667	0.001	0.094	0.230
After matched
n-TPE group	27.59% (n = 29)	27.27% (n = 22)	50.00% (n = 24)	63.04% (n = 46)
TPE group	28.33% (n = 60)	52.73% (n = 55)	59.26% (n = 54)	62.79% (n = 43)
P value by Pearson χ2 test	0.941	0.043	0.447	0.980

TPE therapeutic plasma exchange

Percent changes were calculated only in patients who had TG concentration available for that day

The number of subjects with paired data for each day is also shown

Median {25th, 75th percentile} TG concentrations in n-TPE and TPE groups