[Retracted] Clinical Efficacy of Methotrexate Combined with Iguratimod on Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Its Influence on the Expression Levels of HOTAIR in Serum

Table 3

Comparison of improvement of clinical symptoms in patients between the two groups before and after treatment ().

Group	Time	Control group ()	Research group ()
Number of joint swelling (pieces)	Before treatment			1.341	0.181
	After treatment	^#	^#	10.872	<0.001
Number of joint tenderness (months)	Before treatment			1.829	0.069
	After treatment	^#	^#	29.998	<0.001
Morning stiffness time (h)	Before treatment			0.927	0.355
	After treatment	^#	^#	18.695	<0.001

Note: Compared with before treatment, ^# was less than 0.05.