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Table 4 Percentage of symptom-free days, regarding different types of symptoms

From: Effect of nasal irrigation on allergic rhinitis control in children; complementarity between CARAT and MASK outcomes

Percentage (%) of symptom-free days

Active (n: 55)

Control (n: 23)

p-value *

Ocular symptomsa

100.0 (85.2–100.0)

96.8 (81.0–100.0)

0.483

Nasal symptomsa

67.7 (50.0–87.9)

68.0 (44.8–85.7)

0.896

Asthma symptomsa

100.0 (87.5–100.0)

100.0 (96.6–100.0)

0.540

Overall allergic symptomsa

69.6 (40.9–90.7)

75.0 (41.7–85.7)

0.906

Ocular TSMSb

75.0 (53.7–85.7)

66.7 (46.2–77.3)

0.054

Nasal TSMSb

64.5 (50.8–76.8)

44.0 (38.5–56.5)

0.019

Asthma TSMSb

76.9 (61.8–85.0)

64.0 (42.9–76.2)

0.016

Overall allergic TSMSb

65.4 (51.9–77.8)

42.9 (36.7–61.5)

0.012

  1. p-values < 0.05 are shown in italics
  2. Values shown as medians with 25–75 percentiles
  3. Corresponding to < 20% on a visual analogue scales (VAS) for symptoms and b Total Symptom and Medication Score (TSMS)
  4. * Wilcoxon’srank-sum test