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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Dermatol. 2019 Jun 19;82(1):72–79. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.06.025

Table 4.

Number of patients with a lab abnormality by month of therapy

Baseline Month 1 Month 2 Month 3 Month 4 Month 5 Month 6
Triglycerides, mg/dL
 Grade 1 (150–300), n (%) 161 (13.3) 146 (19.8) 190 (22.2) 234 (29.5) 195 (29.3) 144 (32.7) 92 (39.0)
 Grade 2 (300–500), n (%) 17 (1.4) 18 (2.4) 21 (2.5) 30 (3.8) 38 (5.6) 16 (3.7) 13 (5.3)
 Grade 3 (500–1000), n (%) 1 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 4 (0.5) 6 (0.7) 0 (0) 2 (0.4) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (1000), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Total Cholesterol, mg/dL
 Grade 1 (ULN-300), n (%) 117 (12.1) 101 (19.2) 123 (20.3) 115 (20.7) 113 (24.5) 74 (25.4) 45 (26.1)
 Grade 2 (300–400), n (%) 1 (0.1) 2 (0.4) 2 (0.3) 3 (0.5) 6 (1.3) 3 (1) 2 (1.1)
 Grade 3 (400–500), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (>500), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
AST, IU/L
 Grade 1 (ULN-3x ULN), n (%) 46 (3.8) 29 (4.0) 45 (5.5) 49 (6.6) 38 (5.9) 25 (5.9) 16 (6.7)
 Grade 2 (3x ULN-5x ULN), n (%) 2 (0.2) 1 (0.1) 2 (0.2) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 1 (0.2) 1 (0.4)
 Grade 3 (5x ULN-20x ULN), n (%) 2 (0.2) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (>20x ULN), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
ALT, IU/L
 Grade 1 (ULN-3x ULN), n (%) 38 (3.1) 26 (3.7) 43 (5.4) 34 (4.6) 24 (3.8) 13 (3.1) 7 (2.9)
 Grade 2 (3x ULN-5x ULN), n (%) 1 (0.1) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 2 (0.8)
 Grade 3 (5x ULN-20x ULN), n (%) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 1 (0.1) 2 (0.3) 4 (0.6) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (>20x ULN), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
WBC, ×10^3/mL
 Grade 1 (3-LLN), n (%) 41 (4.1) 33 (6.7) 38 (7.1) 31 (6.6) 31 (7.3) 20 (7.2) 15 (10.1)
 Grade 2 (2–3), n (%) 1 (0.1) 3 (0.6) 2 (0.4) 2 (0.4) 2 (0.5) 1 (0.4) 1 (0.7)
 Grade 3 (1–2), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (<1), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
Platelets, ×10^3/mL
 Grade 1 (75-LLN), n (%) 19 (1.9) 11 (2.2) 12 (2.3) 7 (1.5) 5 (1.2) 8 (2.9) 2 (1.4)
 Grade 2 (50–75), n (%) 1 (0.1) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 3 (25–50), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (0.2) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)
 Grade 4 (<25), n (%) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0)

AST: aspartate aminotransferase; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; WBC: white blood cell Details on the absolute number of patients screened each month can be found in Table 2.