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. 2002 Aug;54(2):147–156. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2125.2002.01621.x

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the patients and outcome of therapy.

	Methotrexate
Characteristic	7.5 mg week⁻¹	15 mg week⁻¹	P
Age (years)	49.9±11.6	56.3±12.3	0.20^a
Sex M/F	5/7	10/2	0.04^b
Weight (kg)	80.8±16.9	97.1±22.3	0.05^a
BSA (m²)	1.9±0.2	2.2±0.2	0.02^a
CL_CR (l h⁻¹)	6.3±2.1	7.4±2.5	0.23^a
Baseline PASI	44.8±26.2	38.6±25.4	0.23^c
Final PASI (%)	29.9±16.6	28.0±31.4	0.13^c
Responders (%)	66.7	75.0	0.65^a

^a

Student's t-test

^b

Fisher's test

^c

Mann–Whitney test.