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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Amyotroph Lateral Scler. 2008 Aug;9(4):212–222. doi: 10.1080/17482960802195632

Table II.

Secondary functional outcomes: FVC, TUG, QoL.

Outcome measure Baseline Mean
6-month Mean
Mean change in scores
p-value Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Primary analysis (n=60) Celecoxib/Creatine (n=30) Minocycline/Creatine (n=30) Celecoxib/Creatine Minocycline/Creatine Celecoxib/Creatine Minocycline/Creatine
Primary analysis (n=60)
 Mean FVC (SD) 88.90 (13.64) 94.07 (15.11) 76.57 (24.81) 76.00 (31.27) −12.33 (15.88) −18.07 (24.75) 0.482
 Mean TUG (SD) n=46 20.54 (35.59) 11.91 (5.89) 37.27 (56.10) 36.00 (60.44) 16.73 (44.53) 24.09 (57.35) 0.201
 Mean QoL (SD) 8.20 (1.61) 7.43 (2.06) 6.53 (2.16) 5.87 (2.79) −1.67 (2.28) −1.57 (2.87) 0.589
Secondary analysis (n=86) Celecoxib/Creatine (n=47) Minocycline/Creatine (n=39) Celecoxib/Creatine Minocycline/Creatine Celecoxib/Creatine Minocycline/Creatine
 Mean FVC (SD) 87.96 (15.02) 92.08 (15.13) 72.68 (27.23) 70.51 (33.75) −15.28 (18.09) −21.56 (27.02) 0.342
 Mean TUG (SD) 19.89 (29.98) 11.26 (5.24) 53.13 (69.15) 51.16 (72.43) 33.24 (61.27) 39.90 (70.53) 0.508
 Mean QoL (SD) n=72 7.83 (1.85) 7.31 (2.08) 6.21 (2.47) 5.72 (3.02) −1.62 (2.39) −1.59 (2.90) 0.728

FVC: Forced Vital Capacity; TUG: Timed Up and Go Test; QoL: Quality of Life. Fourteen participants were missing the baseline TUG values and the month 6 values and so were excluded from these analyses.