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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Rheum Dis. 2010 Jan;69(1):43–47. doi: 10.1136/ard.2008.101378

Table 2.

Proportion of Follow-up Visits with Laboratory Tests Available at Which Elevated Liver Enzyme Tests* Were Identified, by Disease and Drug Exposure

RA Patients (n = 1953) PsA Patients (n = 151)
Proportion with
AST or ALT
> 1× ULN, %
Proportion with
AST or ALT
> 2× ULN, %
Proportion with
AST or ALT
> 1× ULN, %
Proportion
with
AST or ALT
> 2× ULN, %

Methotrexate alone, % 22 1 35 0
Leflunomide alone, % 17 2 - -
Methotrexate +
leflunomide, %
31 5 - -
Neither methotrexate nor
leflunomide, %
14 2 28 3
P value for column < 0.01 < 0.01 NS NS

ULN = upper limit of normal; NS = Not significant; - indicates fewer than 10 PsA patients were on this treatment regimen

*

Defined as AST or ALT greater than 1× or 2× times the upper limit of the laboratory normal (ULN)