Table 3.
Effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating treatment on 6-min walk test between baseline and each other cycle in ambulant and non-ambulant patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
| Cycle number | Baseline—0 |
Mean (m) | N | SD | p-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After treatment number cycle 1–5 | |||||
| Ambulant patients | |||||
| 1 | 0 | 302.2 | 10 | 96.3 | 0.001 |
| 1 | 337.7 | 10 | 108.1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 302.2 | 10 | 96.3 | 0.005 |
| 2 | 364.8 | 10 | 113.9 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 302.2 | 10 | 96.3 | 0.039 |
| 3 | 355.3 | 10 | 121.9 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 302.2 | 10 | 96.3 | 0.028 |
| 4 | 373.5 | 10 | 143.0 | ||
| 5 | 0 | 309.1 | 9 | 99.4 | 0.193 |
| 5 | 353.4 | 9 | 149.9 | ||
| Wheelchair-dependent patients | |||||
| 1 | 0 | 158.3 | 9 | 116.2 | 0.046 |
| 1 | 170.6 | 9 | 121.3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | 170.6 | 9 | 121.3 | 0.060 |
| 2 | 207.6 | 9 | 110.5 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 207.6 | 9 | 110.5 | 0.004 |
| 3 | 229.6 | 9 | 98.2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 229.6 | 9 | 98.2 | 0.262 |
| 4 | 216.9 | 9 | 75.8 | ||
| 5 | 0 | 213.9 | 7 | 75.0 | 0.600 |
| 5 | 162.0 | 7 | 80.3 | ||
N, number patients.