Group | | Treatment success | relapse | rebound |
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n
| PASI-50 | Never PASI-50 | relapse | No relapse | rebound | No rebound |
CHM | 7 | 6 (86 %) | 1 (14 %) | 1 (17 %) | 5 (83 %) | 0 (0 %) | 6 (100 %) |
Placebo | 10 | 9 (90 %) | 1 (10 %) | 6 (67 %) | 3 (33 %) | 0 (0 %) | 9 (100 %) |
Total | 17 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 15 |
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CHM Chinese herbal medicine
- PASI-50, PASI score decreases more than 50 % from baseline
- Relapse, loss of 50 % of PASI improvement from baseline in patients who have achieved treatment success (at least 50 % improvement in PASI score from baseline)
- Rebound, defined only for patients who achieved PASI-50, occurred when the improvement in the PASI score increased up to 25 % from the baseline PASI score
- There was no difference in the relapse rate between the two groups by Chi-square (odds ratio: 0.10; 95 % CI: 0.008, 1.288; P = 0.119)