Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation

Table 4 Relation between mortality and drug therapy

From: Mortality in a cohort of Egyptian systemic lupus erythematosus patients: retrospective two-center study

	Mortality		P
	Survived (n = 737)	Died (n = 34)	P
Drugs
Cyclophosphamide	280 (38%)	24 (70.6%)	0.001^*
Azathioprine	546 (74.1%)	21 (61.8%)	0.111
Mofetil	71 (9.6%)	10 (29.4%)	^FEp = 0.002^*
Methylprednisolone	454 (61.6%)	29 (85.3%)	0.005^*
Corticosteroids
15	151 (20.5%)	1 (2.9%)	< 0.001^*
15–35	381 (51.7%)	9 (26.5%)
> 40	205 (27.8%)	24 (70.6%)
Anti-malarial	633 (85.9%)	27 (79.4%)	^FEp = 0.314

χ² Chi-square test, FE Fisher exact, U Mann-Whitney test, p P value for association between different categories
*Statistically significant at p ≤ 0.05

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