Table 2 Longitudinal analysis of disease status for all 38 completers for assessment of the prevalence of similar clinical status at week 12 and other follow-up time points of the study
12 weeks (95% CI)At all time points of follow-upAt 90% of the time points (95% CI)At 80% of the time points of follow-up (95% CI)
Partial remission 7 (18.4%) (9.2 to 33.4)3/75/7 (71.4%) (35.9 to 91.8)6/7 (85.7%) (48.7 to 97.4)
BASDAI<321 (55.3%) (39.7 to 69.9)12/2116/21 (76.2%) (54.9 to 89.4)19/21 (90.5%) (71.1 to 97.3)
BASFI<324 (63.2%) (47.3 to 76.6)14/2417/24 (70.8%) (50.8 to 85.1)17/24 (70.9%) (50.8 to 85.1)
No arthritis33 (86.8%) (72.7 to 94.2)24/3331/33 (93.9%) (80.4 to 98.3)32/33 (97.0%) (84.7 to 99.5)
No enthesitis29 (76.3%) (60.8 to 87.0)14/2925/29 (86.2%) (69.4 to 94.5)25/29 (86.2%) (69.4 to 94.5)
No arthritis/enthesitis28 (73.7%) (58.0 to 85.0)14/2822/28 (78.6%) (60.5 to 89.8)23/28 (82.1%) (64.4 to 92.1)
BASDAI/global assessment <425 (65.8%) (49.9 to 78.8)12/2520/25 (80.0%) (60.9 to 91.1)21/25 (84.0%) (65.3 to 93.6)
CRP ⩽6 mg/l34 (89.5%) (75.9 to 95.8)8/3423/34 (67.6%) (50.8 to 80.9)27/34 (79.4%) (63.2 to 89.7)
  • Numbers are n of patients, numbers in brackets are % of patients.