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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheumatol. 2014 Dec;66(12):3496–3504. doi: 10.1002/art.38853

Table 4.

Clinical features of patients with and without past history of methotrexate (MTX) use; values expressed as mean (SEM) unless otherwise specified

Past MTX No past MTX P value
Number of patients 42 260
Visit age 37.2 (2.8) 44.5 (1.1) 0.02
Age of onset 29.7 (3.2) 38.4 (1.3) 0.02
Disease duration 7.6 (1.1) 6.2 (0.5) 0.32
MRSS, number scored 42 258
 MRSS score 9.9 (1.5) 5.4 (0.3) <0.0001
LoSCAT, number scored 36 205
 mLoSSI 17.1 (3.7) 12.3 (1.4) 0.18
 LoSDI 26.7 (3.3) 15.3 (1.0) <0.0001
 PGA-A 26.4 (4.6) 29.8 (2.2) 0.54
 PGA-D 42.8 (4.4) 27.3 (1.4) <0.0001
 Active disease, n (%) 22 (61) 143 (70) 0.33
Functional Impairment, n (%) 23 (55) 44 (17) <0.0001
Deep involvement, n (%) 30 (71) 125 (48) 0.007