Table 1.

Baseline information on patients

	Etanercept plus methotrexate	Etanercept only	P value
n	57	40
Age (years)	51.1 ± 1.7	53.3 ± 2.0	Not significant
Female (%)	91	70	< 0.02
Disease (years)	14.5 ± 1.3	12.7 ± 1.5	Not significant
Rheumatoid factor-positive (%)	95	90	Not significant
Shared epitope-positive (%)	78	87	Not significant

Values presented as mean ± standard error of the mean. Comparisons are by unpaired Student t test for continuous variables and by Fisher exact test for dichotomous variables.