Table 3.

Relation of number of recalled flares and current flare status to self-categorized disease state.

	Disease Activity Category*		OR (95% CI)‡	P
Over the previous 6 months	Remission	No. flares	0.48 (0.38–0.60)	< 0.001
		Current flare absent†	15.20 (5.58–41.37)	< 0.001
	LDA/PASS	No. flares	0.85 (0.79–0.90)	< 0.001
		Current flare absent	5.74 (3.51–9.37)	< 0.001
Over the previous 12 months	Remission	No. flares	0.77 (0.70–0.85)	< 0.001
		Current flare absent†	15.13 (5.68–40.34)	< 0.001
	LDA/PASS	No. flares	0.95 (0.92–0.97)	< 0.001
		Current flare absent	5.35 (3.33–8.60)	< 0.001

^*Reference category: not in any of the 3 LDA states.

^†Reference category: current flare present.

^‡OR are derived from a multinomial logistic regression model (separate models for 6 months and 12 months), where the dependent variable was disease activity category and the independent variables were flare count and presence/absence of current flare.

LDA: low disease activity; PASS: patient acceptable symptom state.