Table 1

Descriptive statistics of clinical trial, placebo arm MS patients derived from the open data set of the SLCMSR and included in "Individual Risk Profile" OLAP-tool, version 2.0.0, divided by the four different courses CIS clinically isolated syndrome, RR relapsing remitting, SP secondary progressive and PP primary progressive.


Disease subtype

Database patient characteristics
CIS
RR
SP
PP

No. of patients
124
460
455
20
Sex ratio (m/f)
0.38
0.41
0.69
0.82
Age at onset (Median and 5%- and 95%- percentile)
30 [19;40]
29 [17;41]
29 [18;45]
37 [19;57]
Baseline EDSS (Median and 5%- and 95%- percentile)
1.5 [0.0;5.0]
2.5 [1.0;5.5]
5.5 [3.0;6.5]
3.5 [1.5;6.0]
Duration (months) (Median and 5%- and 95%- percentile)
2 [0;104]
66 [7;225]
148 [40;341]
50 [11;190]
Relapses last 12 months:
no relapse
5
47
256
6
Relapses last 12 months:
1 relapse
115
131
97
4
Relapses last 12 months:
2 or more relapses
0
132
36
1
Relapses last 12 months:
unknown
4
150
66
9

The values in brackets are the 5%- and 95%- percentile.

Daumer et al. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2007 7:11   doi:10.1186/1472-6947-7-11