Participants’ baseline characteristics
co-morbidity
DISEASE
Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of all randomized participants are shown in Table Baseline characteristics. Data were described as frequency (%) for sex, drug therapy, stratification by disease severity, co-morbidity and mean ± SD for others. One asterisk (*) indicates a p-value ≤ 0.05; two asterisks (**) indicate a p-value ≤ 0.01; three asterisks (***) indicates a p-value ≤ 0.001.