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Table 3 Comparison of responders and non-responders, for age, sex, spondyloarthritis diagnosis and pharmacological treatment. Legend: Both responders and non-responders may have received more than one diagnosis or pharmacological treatment during the respective time frame

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

 

Responders (n = 2785)a

Non-responders (n = 2986)a

p-value

Demographics

Age, median (Q1, Q3)

57 (45, 66)

53 (41, 66)

<0.001

Sex, n women (%)

1494 (49)

1551 (51)

0.290

Diagnoses, n (%)

Ankylosing spondylitis

744 (27)

679 (23)

0.001

Psoriatic arthritis

1285 (46)

944 (32)

<0.001

Undifferentiated SpA

411 (15)

300 (10)

<0.001

Sacroiliitis

157 (6)

209 (7)

0.035

Reactive arthritis

359 (13)

924 (31)

<0.001

IBD-associated arthritis

66 (2)

65 (2)

0.659

Spine enthesiopathy

13 (1)

12 (0)

0.842

Psoriatic spondylitis

20 (1)

19 (1)

0.750

Treatment, n (%)

Methotrexate

936 (34)

538 (18)

<0.001

Sulphasalazine

297 (11)

159 (5)

<0.001

Etanercept

323 (12)

153 (5)

<0.001

Adalimumab

168 (6)

94 (3)

<0.001

  1. Based on 5771 spondyloarthritis patients in the Skåne Health Care Register who were invited to participate in a survey. All data in the table is based on the health care registers
  2. Abbreviations: SpA spondyloarthritis, IBD inflammatory bowel disease
  3. a40 subjects had incomplete data and are excluded. Comparisons were performed using independent-sample t-tests and Fisher’s exact test