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. 2018 Jan 16;8:1. doi: 10.1186/s13561-018-0185-7

Table 2.

Patient characteristics (N = 1227)

Age (mean ± SD) 35.7 ± 14.6
Subtype (%)
 Haemophilia A 949 (77.3%)
 Haemophilia B 278 (22.7%)
Country (%)
 UK 306 (24.9%)
 Italy 271 (22.1%)
 France 254 (20.7%)
 Spain 206 (16.8%)
 Germany 190 (15.5%)
Treatment strategy (%)
 On-demand 519 (42.3%)
 Prophylaxis 708 (57.7%)
Target joints (mean ± SD) 1.1 ± 1.4
Number of target joints (patient n, %)
 Zero 518 (41.2%)
 One 334 (46.4%)
 Two 241 (34.0%)
 Three or more 139 (19.6%)
Location of target joints (patient n, % of target joint cohort)
 Exclusively lower body 371 (52.3%)
 Exclusively upper body 186 (26.2%)
 Upper and lower body 152 (21.4%)
Surgeries to target joints in the previous 12 months
(patient n, % of target joint cohort)
305 (42.7%)
 Joint aspiration 200 (28.0%)
 Endoscopic examination of joint 116 (16.2%)
 Joint fusion 84 (11.8%)
 Joint replacement 64 (9.0%)
 Destruction/surgical removal of synovium 56 (7.8%)

Note. Values are means ± SD or numbers (%)