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. 2019 Sep 12;20:208. doi: 10.1186/s12931-019-1180-1

Table 3.

Summary of First Clinical Failure Events and First PAH Hospitalizations by WHO Functional Class and Treatment Group (Primary Analysis Set)

Combination Therapy Pooled Monotherapy Ambrisentan Monotherapy Tadalafil Monotherapy
(n = 253) (n = 247) (n = 126) (n = 121)
Baseline Functional Class FC II FC III FC II FC III FC II FC III FC II FC III
(n = 76) (n = 177) (n = 79) (n = 168) (n = 38) (n = 88) (n = 41) (n = 80)
First Clinical Failure Events
 Number (%) of patients with event 4 (5) 42 (24) 17 (22) 60 (36) 9 (24) 34 (39) 8 (20) 26 (33)
  Death 3 (4) 6 (3) 1 (1) 7 (4) 0 2 (2) 1 (2) 5 (6)
  PAH Hospitalization 0 10 (6) 8 (10) 22 (13) 5 (13) 13 (15) 3 (7) 9 (11)
  Disease Progression 0 10 (6) 5 (6) 11 (7) 3 (8) 9 (10) 2 (5) 2 (3)
  ULTCR 1 (1) 16 (9) 3 (4) 20 (12) 1 (3) 10 (11) 2 (5) 10 (13)
Hazard ratio (95% CI) combination vs. 0.211 (0.071,0.629) 0.576 (0.388,0.855) 0.190 (0.058,0.619) 0.551 (0.350,0.866) 0.247 (0.074,0.823) 0.602 (0.368,0.983)
First PAH Hospitalizationsa
 Number (%) of patients with event 0 19 (11) 11 (14) 33 (20) 7 (18) 20 (23) 4 (10) 13 (16)
Hazard ratio (95% CI) combination vs. N/A 0.484 (0.275,0.852) N/A 0.435 (0.232,0.815) N/A 0.554 (0.273,1.124)

CI Confidence interval, FC Functional class, N/A Not applicable, PAH Pulmonary arterial hypertension, ULTCR Unsatisfactory long-term clinical response, WHO World Health Organization

aPost-hoc analysis