Table 1.

Baseline patient characteristics in 56 children with moderately severe Henoch-Schönlein purpura nephritis.

	Treatment	Control	P value
Number of cases	42	14
Boy/girl	24/18	5/9	0.165
Age (year-old)	8.26 ± 2.87	8.87 ± 2.59	0.479
Course (days)	13.62 ± 12.147	18.71 ± 16.754	0.308
ISKDC pathological type
Grade I	0 (0%)	2 (14.3%)	0.089
Grade II	31 (73.8%)	9 (64.3%)
Grade III	11 (26.2%)	3 (21.4%)
24 hr proteinuria (mg)	2290.63 ± 1313.90	2362.69 ± 1083.76	0.840
Serum albumin (g/L)	33.43 ± 6.17	36.51 ± 5.49	0.136
Scr (μmol/L)	38.68 ± 12.02	33.58 ± 8.99	0.131