Table 4. Life expectancy from continuing (C) or withdrawing (W) maintenance therapy with thiopurines in 10,000 simulations of CD cohorts in prolonged remission.
CD patients without extensive colitis | CD patients with extensive colitis | |||||||||||
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C | 95% CI | W | 95% CI | C | 95% CI | W | 95% CI | |||||
Life expectancy, age at death, years | 77.80 | 72.91 | 83.68 | 77.77 | 72.77 | 83.71 | 77.54 | 72.53 | 83.55 | 77.35 | 72.29 | 83.49 |
Loss in life expectancy as compared to general population, years | -0.47 | -0.66 | -0.13 | -0.50 | -0.80 | -0.10 | -0.74 | -1.04 | -0.26 | -0.93 | -1.28 | -0.32 |
Proportion of preferred strategy | 52.2% | 47.8% | 93.7% | 6.3% |