Table 2.

Appearance and disappearance of the nodules after 3 years of treatment

	All participants	150 µg/kg annually	800 µg/kg annually	150 µg/kg 3-monthly	800 µg/kg 3-monthly	P-value
No. of subjects	485	126	122	125	112
Mean no. of new nodules ± SD	2.1 ± 1.7	2.1 ± 1.7	2.4 ± 1.8	1.7 ± 1.5	2.0 ± 1.6	0.014
Mean no. of nodules that disappeared ± SD	0.5 ± 0.8	0.5 ± 0.8	0.5 ± 0.7	0.6 ± 0.8	0.6 ± 0.8	0.279

Abbreviation: No, number; SD, standard deviation