Our results support the hypothesis that a low initial dose of prednisone is sufficient to ... Responders reached clinical remission in 6.6 days in average; most of them within 10 days from onset ...
Results: 47/60 (78.3%) patients responded to 12.5 mg of prednisone after a mean interval of 6.6 ± 5.2 days. In univariate analysis, body weight and gender discriminated the two groups.