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Table 3 Induction therapy in patients received mycophenolate

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

 

Total

Non-Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians

P-value

No. of Patients

20

5

15

 

Mean eGFRa

(ml/min/1.73 m2)

 

76 (± 41.4)

75.3 (± 43.1)

0.976

Mean Creatinine (μmol/L)

143.0 (± 22.26)

145.6 (± 131.4)

142.1 (± 92.25)

0.947

Mean ACR (g/mol)

289.71 (± 70.7)

135.6 (± 187.7)

341 (± 338.3)

0.217

Total MMF dose (g, mean ± SD)

285 ± 117.57

374.6 ± 97.4

255.9 ± 110.79

0.047

Total Prednisolone dose (mg, mean ± SD)

3735 ± 1959

3734 ± 1674.2

3736 ± 2100.3

0.999

Number of patients received Pulse methylprednisolone

8 (40%)

3 (60%)

5 (33%)

0.347

  1. MMF – Mycophenolate mofetil; SD – standard deviation; ACR – albumin-creatinine ratio
  2. aeGFR obtained utlising the CKD-EPI equation [19]