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. 2013 Mar 13;12(3):264–274. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(12)70327-7

Table 2.

Estimated probability of clinical milestones

From symptom onset to baseline visit
During first year of follow-up
During second year of follow-up
Number of events/patients at risk Estimated probability (95% CI) of an event* Number of events/patients at risk Estimated probability (95% CI) of an event* Number of events/patients at risk Estimated probability (95% CI) of an event*
Falls at least once a day 34/105 23% (13·3– 40·0%) 11/42 21% (10·7–40·2%) 8/16 45% (20·4–98·4%)
Feeding by nasogastric tube or gastrostomy 3/83 3% (0·7–12·9%) 7/51 13% (4·5–38·0%)§ 2/29 6% (1·4–30·0%)
Unintelligible speech 12/117 7% (3·2–15·9%) 11/59 13% (6·0–28·7%) 5/26 15% (5·3–39·9%)§
Wheelchair dependency 17/123 9% (4·3–18·4%) 11/59 13% (6·3–28·3%) 5/25 14% (5·2–37·9%)
*

Estimated probabilities of an event fitted by an interval-censored survival model applying a complementary log-log link function. p values are Wald-χ2.

p<0·0001.

p=0·046.

§

p=0·0002.

p=0·0005.

p=0·0001.