Table 5.

Relationship between longitudinal disease severity scores and patient-, disease- and treatment-related prognostic confounding factors (n = 22)

Independent variable	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval	P-value
Patient-related
Age	1·000	0·981–1·021	0·961
Gender	1·677	0·892–3·150	0·108
Disease-related
Duration of disease before treatment	1·000	0·995–1·011	0·440
Severity of disease before treatment	0·883	0·364–2·144	0·783
Number of affected orofacial sites	1·060	0·634–1·772	0·823
Presence or absence of facial (nonlabial) swelling	1·098	0·386–3·121	0·861
Treatment-related
Total dose of triamcinolone	1·002	0·996–1·008	0·441
Total number of courses of therapy	1·573	0·946–2·614	0·081
Observation period after first course of treatment	1·010	0·985–1·036	0·450