Early RA patient baseline demographics and associations with response to steroid/methotrexate therapy.

A cohort of early RA patients (n = 73) were recruited for investigation. Baseline characteristics of the cohort is summarised in column [Entire cohort]. Patients with EULAR response data at week 14 post-initiation of therapy (n = 42) were furthermore split into non-responders [NR] or moderate/good responders [MOD/GOOD] and baseline characteristics in each subgroup analysed separately. Statistically significant differences between the two EULAR response subgroups [NR vs. MOD/GOOD] were examined. (‡) fishers statistical test (φ) mann-whitney U test.