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Table 1 Demographics and participant characteristics by IAC injection type

From: Comparison of efficacy between triamcinolone acetonide and triamcinolone hexacetonide for intraarticular therapy in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a retrospective analysis

 

TA

N = 34 with 124 injections

TH

N = 14 with 41 injections

p value

Relapse time in months (median [IQR])

3.00 [2.00, 6.00]

11.00 [5.00, 18.00]

< 0.001*

Age in years (median [IQR])

4.88 [2.92, 10.65]

4.83 [3.02, 7.67]

0.901

JIA disease duration in years (median [IQR])

0.46 [0.19, 2.66]

1.17 [0.44, 4.33]

0.179

Female (%)

27 (79.4)

10 (71.4)

0.708

Ethnicity (%)

  

0.160

 White

27 (79.4)

13 (92.9)

 

 Black

4 (11.8)

0 (0.0)

 

 Hispanic

3 (8.8)

0 (0.0)

 

 Unknown

0 (0.0)

1 (7.1)

 

JIA diagnosis (%)

  

0.461

 Oligo

24 (70.6)

12 (85.7)

 

 Poly

8 (23.5)

1 (7.1)

 

 Psoriatic

2 (5.9)

1 (7.1)

 

Injections by joint locations (%)

  

0.051

 Knee

62 (50.0)

24 (58.5)

 

 Ankle

31 (25.0)

5 (12.2)

 

 Wrist

14 (11.3)

1 (2.4)

 

 Elbow

2 (1.6)

1 (2.4)

 

 Fingers/toes

14 (11.3)

9 (22.0)

 

 Hip

1 (0.8)

0 (0.0)

 

 Mid-foot

0 (0.0)

1 (2.4)

 
  1. Total sample size is 39 participants with 165 injections. Nine of the 39 participants received both IAC injection types. p values from Mann–Whitney U tests and Fisher’s Exact tests are listed are for the comparison between IAC injection types
  2. IQR interquartile range
  3. *Denotes p value < 0.05