Research Article
The Effect of Prednisone on Tuberculin Skin Test Reaction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Table 2
Mean and median TST sizes in RA patients treated with prednisone and RA patients not treated with prednisone and controls.
| | TST size (mm) | RA with prednisone therapy (n = 43) | RA without prednisone therapy (n = 22) | Controls (n = 195) | P value |
| | Mean ± SD | 5.3 ± 6.6 | 7.8 ± 6.2 | 7.6 ± 7.0 | 0.149 | | Median | 3.0 | 4.5 | 7.0 | | Range | 0, 28] | 0, 22] | 0, 27] |
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