. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Ocul Immunol Inflamm. 2018 Feb 16;27(4):686–692. doi: 10.1080/09273948.2018.1424341

Table 5:

Predictors of Relapse after Attempting to Stop TNF-α inhibitors

Predictor	Hazard Ratio	CI	p value
Age at withdrawal	1.06	0.97, 1.15	0.19
Female	1.42	0.17, 12.18	0.75
Time on biologic ≥ 486 days^a	1.63	0.40, 6.63	0.50
Time from corticosteroid-sparing control to taper or stop date (per 30-day increment)	1.01	0.94, 1.09	0.71
Time from uveitis diagnosis to start of biologic ≥ 1765 days^a	0.63	0.14, 2.91	0.56

These predictors were evaluated in a dichotomous manner based on their median values in our study population.