Table 6 Patient distribution as per MIDAS grades at each study time (47 patients)
T0 | T6 | T12 | T18 | |||
MIDAS grade I | n (%) 95% CI | 0 (0.0) 0–100 | 17 (36.2) 25.2–48.9 | 16 (34.0) 23.3–46.7 | 26 (55.3) 42.8–67.2 | |
MIDAS grade II | n (%) 95% CI | 0 (0.0) 0–100 | 11 (23.4) 14.4–35.6 | 12 (25.5) 16.2–37.9 | 15 (31.9) 21.5–44.6 | |
MIDAS grade III | n (%) 95% CI | 14 (29.8) 18.3–44.5 | 12 (25.5) 15.0–40.1 | 16 (34.0) 21.8–48.8 | 5 (10.6) 4.4–23.4 | |
MIDAS grade IV | n (%) 95% CI | 33 (70.2) 55.5–81.7 | 7 (14.9) 7.2–28.4 | 3 (6.4) 2.0–18.3 | 1 (2.1) 0.3–14.1 | |
p values from HGLM and pairwise comparisons | ||||||
Outcome | Test for overall difference | T6 vs. T0 | T12 vs. T6 | T18 vs. T12 | p for trend | |
MIDAS grade I | 0.047 | 0.998 | 0.998 | 0.022 | <0.001 | |
MIDAS grade II | 0.740 | 0.998 | 0.998 | 0.998 | <0.001 | |
MIDAS grade III | 0.043 | 0.614 | 0.614 | 0.017 | 0.081 | |
MIDAS grade IV | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.211 | 0.233 | 0.003 | |