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Table 2 Frequency and duration of treatment with free combination therapy, dutasteride 0.5 mg monotherapy, or tamsulosin 0.4 mg monotherapy in patients with prevalent BPH in South Korea

From: Free combination of dutasteride plus tamsulosin for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia in South Korea: analysis of drug utilization and adverse events using the National Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service database

  

Free combination therapy versus dutasteride monotherapy

Free combination therapy versus tamsulosin monotherapy

Free combination of dutasteride plus tamsulosin therapy (n = 1529)

Dutasteride monotherapy (n = 6660)

Std. diff*

Tamsulosin monotherapy (n = 6566)

Std. diff*

Treatment duration (days)

 Mean ± SD

292.5 ± 54.1

297.1 ± 54.0

8.6

295.8 ± 54.0

6.1

 Median, IQR

305.0 (249.0, 341.0)

310.0 (260.0, 342.0)

 

310.0 (255.0, 343.0)

 

Treatment duration, n (%)

 6–9 months

519 (33.9)

2020 (30.3)

7.7

2085 (31.8)

4.7

 9–12 months

1010 (66.1)

4640 (69.7)

7.7

4481 (68.2)

4.7

  1. BPH, benign prostatic hyperplasia; IQR, interquartile range; SD, standard deviation; Std. Diff, standardized difference
  2. *For continuous variables, the standardized difference was calculated by dividing the absolute difference in means of the free combination therapy cohort and reference monotherapy cohorts by the pooled standard deviation (SD) of both groups, for each comparison. The pooled SD was the square root of the average of the squared SD. For dichotomous variables, the standardized difference was calculated using the following equation where P is the respective proportion of participants in each treatment cohort: [(Pfreecombination therapy- Preference)/ √(Pfreecombinationtherapyx(1 – Pfreecombinationtherapy) + Preference x (1 – Preference))/ 2]