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Table 2 Spondyloarthritis features, pharmacological treatment, and PROMs in AS, PsA or other-SpA, with IBP

From: Back pain and health status in patients with clinically diagnosed ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis and other spondyloarthritis: a cross-sectional population-based study

 

AS with current IBPa N = 319

PsA with current IBPa N = 409

p-value*

Other-SpA with current IBPa N = 282

p-value**

p-value***

Demographic

Age 2009, mean (sd)b

54 (13)

57 (13)

 

53 (15)

  

Sex, N men (%)b

182 (57)

129 (32)

<0.001

87 (31)

<0.001

0.860

SpA-related disease, N (%)

Uveitisb

63 (20)

9 (2)

<0.001

37 (13)

<0.001

<0.001

Psoriasisb

19 (6)

407 (100)

<0.001

0

  

Inflammatory bowel diseaseb

25 (8)

21 (5)

0.901

36 (13)

0.706

0.001

PROMS, mean (95 % Cl)

NRS-spinal painc

5.9 (5.6−6.1)

6.1 (5.9−6.4)

0.068

6.2 (6.0−6.5)

0.037

0.688

NRS-fatiguec

5.8 (5.6−6.1)

6.2 (5.9−6.4)

0.044

6.1 (5.8−6.4)

0.117

0.547

NRS-patients globalc,d

5.2 (4.9−5.4)

5.4 (5.2−5.6)

0.188

5.5 (5.2−5.7)

0.087

0.850

BASDAIc

5.1 (4.8−5.3)

5.7 (5.5−5.8)

<0.001

5.5 (5.3−5.8)

0.006

0.530

BASFIc

4.4 (4.2−4.7)

4.8 (4.5−5.0)

0.093

4.4 (4.1−4.7)

0.973

0.093

EQ-5Dc

0.68 (0.66−0.70)

0.65 (0.63−0.67)

0.062

0.67 (0.64−0.69)

0.362

0.421

Treatment, n (%)

Etanerceptb

27 (9)

54 (13)

0.044

15 (5)

0.150

0.001

Adalimumabb

12 (4)

32 (8)

0.027

9 (3)

0.825

0.013

Methotrexateb

37 (12)

151 (37)

<0.001

33 (12)

1.000

<0.001

Sulphasalazineb

28 (9)

14 (3)

0.003

24 (9)

1.000

0.006

  1. Abbreviations: AS ankylosing spondylitis, IBD inflammatory bowel disease, NRS numerical rating scale 1–10, BASDAI bath ankylosing spondylitis activity index, BASFI bath ankylosing spondylitis functional index, PROMs patient-reported outcome measures, IBP inflammatory back pain
  2. Based on 2785 spondyloarthritis patients in the Skåne Health Care Register who responded to a questionnaire, registered data for 6 responders were incomplete and was thus excluded
  3. *, **AS with current IBP vs. PsA and other-SpA with current IBP, respectively
  4. ***PsA with current IBP vs. other-SpA with current IBP
  5. aCurrent IBP: ≥3 months of back pain in the preceding year and fulfilling the Berlin criteria for inflammatory back pain (IBP)
  6. bData from the register (SpA-related disease 1998–2009; treatment 2005–2009)
  7. cData from the survey
  8. dPatient’s global assessment of back disease