Table 4.
Clinical symptoms and signs prior to IBD diagnosis by sex.
| Crohn’s disease (n = 100) | Ulcerative colitis (n = 90) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women (n = 53) | Men (n = 47) |
P | Women (n = 35) |
Men (n = 55) | P | |
| Diarrhea | 47 (88.7) | 36 (76.6) | 0.108 | 25 (71.4) | 43 (78.3) | 0.467 |
| Rectal bleeding | 14 (26.4) | 17 (36.2) | 0.291 | 34 (97.1) | 53 (96.4) | 0.841 |
| Abdominal pain | 43 (81.1) | 35 (74.5) | 0.422 | 22 (62.9) | 25 (45.5) | 0.107 |
| Vomiting | 19 (35.8) | 10 (21.3) | 0.109 | 6 (17.1) | 3 (5.5) | 0.072 |
| Anal symptoms | 9 (17) | 7 (14.9) | 0.776 | 2 (5.7) | 2 (3.6) | 0.641 |
| Urge to defecate | 34 (64.2) | 26 (55.3) | 0.368 | 25 (71.4) | 35 (63.6) | 0.445 |
| Bowel incontinence | 25 (47.2) | 9 (19.1) | 0.003* | 12 (34.3) | 20 (36.4) | 0.841 |
| Weight loss | 32 (60.4) | 33 (70.2) | 0.303 | 17 (48.6) | 28 (50.9) | 0.829 |
| Fever | 13 (24.5) | 13 (27.7) | 0.722 | 5 (14.3) | 5 (9.1) | 0.445 |
| Asthenia | 46 (86.8) | 33 (70.2) | 0.042* | 27 (77.1) | 32 (58.2) | 0.065 |
| Arthralgias | 34 (64.2) | 20 (42.6) | 0.031* | 16 (45.7) | 17 (30.9) | 0.155 |
| Other symptomsa | 17 (32.1) | 6 (12.8) | 0.022* | 7 (20) | 5 (9.1) | 0.138 |
| Anemia | 17 (32.1) | 11 (23.4) | 0.335 | 6 (17.1) | 8 (14.5) | 0.740 |
Values are n (%).
aOther symptoms include mouth lesions, nausea, skin lesions, headache, dysphagia, myalgia, dizziness, constipation, dyspnea, bloating, anorexia, fecal mucus, paresthesia, and red eye.
*statistically significant at P < .05.