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Table 2 Baseline characteristics of patients who received mycophenolate

From: Induction therapy and outcome of proliferative lupus nephritis in the top end of Northern Australia – a single centre study retrospective study

 

Non-Indigenous Australians (N = 5)

Indigenous Australians (N = 15)

P-value

Age (mean ± SD)

36.4 ± 6.50

36.2 ± 12.37

0.97

Women, n (%)

3 (60%)

13 (87%)

0.20

Diabetes mellitus, n (%)

0

3 (20%)

0.28

Hypertension n (%)

2 (20%)

3 (20%)

0.37

Acute rheumatic fever / rheumatic heart disease

0

4 (27%)

0.20

Pre-induction creatinine (μmol/L)

145.6 (± 131.4)

142.1 (± 92.25)

0.947

Pre-induction ACR (g/mol)

135.6 ± 187.7

341.1 ± 338.32

0.22

Pathological Classification

 III

1 (20%)

6 (40%)

0.25

 IV

3 (60%)

5 (33%)

 V

0

2 (13%)

 III + V

0

2 (13%)

 IV + V

1 (20%)

0