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Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2015 Oct 1;386(10012):2489–2498. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00347-5

Table 6.

Additional secondary outcomes – improvement in score from baseline to week 48 (evaluable patient population)

Tight control Standard care
Measures of disease activity
PASI1, median improvement (IQR) 1·2 (0·5, 3·2) 1·0 (-0·4 , 2·5)
   Non-missing N (total N) 75 (81) 81 (93)
PASI20, N (%) 58/75 (77·3) 48/81 (59·3)
PASI90, N (%) 32/75 (42·7) 19/81 (23·5)
Enthesitis2, median improvement (IQR) 2·0 (0·0, 4·0) 1·0 (-1·0, 4·0)
   Non-missing N (total N) 73 (82) 72 (80)
Dactylitis3, median improvement (IQR) 38.0 (20·0, 72·0) 58.5 (30·0, 112·0)
   Non-missing N (total N) 31 (35) 22 (27)
mNAPSI4, median improvement (IQR) 3·0 (1·0, 9·0) 2·0 (1·0, 8·0)
   Non-missing N (total N) 57 (62) 53 (62)
Total joint count (TJC), median improvement (IQR) 4·0 (1·0, 11·0) 3·0 (-1·0, 9·5)
   Non-missing N (total N) 92 (101) 92 (105)
Swollen joint count (SJC), median improvement (IQR) 4·0 (2·0, 7·5) 2·5 (1·0, 6·0)
   Non-missing N (total N) 92 (101) 92 (105)
Patient reported outcomes
BASDAI score (cm), median improvement (IQR) 2·4 (0·9, 5·2) 1·5 (-0·2, 3·3)
   Non-missing N (total N) 81 (101) 79 (105)
BASDAI MCID, N (%) 57/81 (70·4) 44/79 (55·7)
BASDAI score (cm)5, median improvement (IQR) 3.9 (-0·3, 5·8) 0.9 (-0·1 , 3·0)
   Non-missing N (total N) 18 (20) 21 (23)
BASFI score (cm), median improvement (IQR) 1.2 (0·3, 3·7) 0.2 (-0·6, 1·7)
   Non-missing N (total N) 81 (101) 80 (105)
BASFI MCID, N (%) 49/81 (60·5) 32/80 (40·0)
BASFI score (cm)6, median improvement (IQR) 2.0 (0·0, 5·5) -0·1 (-0·6, 1·3)
   Non-missing N (total N) 18 (20) 21 (23)
PsAQoL, median improvement (IQR) 3.0 (0·0, 7·0) 0.5 (-1·0, 3·5)
   Non-missing N (total N) 80 (101) 84 (105)
HAQ score, median improvement (IQR) 0·5 (0·1, 0·9) 0·1 (0·0, 0·5)
   Non-missing N (total N) 91 (101) 90 (105)
HAQ MCID, N (%) 53/91 (58·2) 37/90 (41·1)
ASAS 20, N (%) 49/80 (61·3) 33/79 (41·8)
ASAS 40, N (%) 37/80 (46·3) 25/81 (30·9)
1

Patients with skin psoriasis at baseline

2

Patients with enthesitis at baseline

3

Patients with dactylitis at baseline

4

Patients with nail disease at baseline

5

Patients with axial disease at baseline

6

Patients with axial disease at baseline

Improvement (baseline – 48 weeks), where a positive score indicates an improvement Summaries correspond to those patients with non-missing data at baseline and week 48

BASDAI MCID, change in score from baseline to week 48 of at least 1.0cm

BASFI MCID, change in score from baseline to week 48 of at least 0.7cm

HAQ MCID, change in score from baseline to week 48 of at least 0.35

PASI, Psoriasis Area Severity Index; mNAPSI, Modified Nail Psoriasis Severity Index; BASDAI, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index; MCID, Minimum Clinically Important Difference; BASFI, Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index; PsAQoL, Psoriatic Arthritis Quality of Life Questionnaire; ASAS, ASsessment in Ankylosing Spondylitis; HAQ, Health Assessment Questionnaire.