TABLE 2.
Characteristics of the patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), by subtype1
| Crohn disease (n = 22) | Ulcerative colitis (n = 11) | Indeterminate colitis (n = 4) | |
| Age at diagnosis (y) | 12.8 ± 2.02 | 12.5 ± 3.6 | 13.5 ± 4.0 |
| ESR (mm/h) | 36.2 ± 19.5 | 34 ± 19.4 | 18.5 ± 17.7 |
| Hematocrit (%) | 35.1 ± 3.4 | 32.4 ± 4.4 | 36.8 ± 3.0 |
| Symptoms | Abdominal pain: 11 (50%) | Blood in stool: 7 (63.6%) | Blood in stool: 4 (100%) |
| Weight loss: 7 (3.18%) | Abdominal pain: 5 (45.5%) | Abdominal pain: 2 (50%) | |
| Diarrhea: 8 (13.6%) | Diarrhea: 4 (36.4%) | Diarrhea: 1 (25%) | |
| Blood in stool: 2 (9.1%) | Weight loss: 2 (18.2%) | ||
| Other (eg, poor growth, fever, fatigue, anemia, perianal problems): 4 (18.2%) | Other (eg, anemia, vomiting, fatigue, constipation, perianal problems): 1 (9.1%) | ||
| Disease location | Ileal involvement: 4 | Proctitis: 4 | Colonic involvement: 2 |
| Colonic involvement: 8 (4 with perianal disease) | Left-sided ulcerative colitis: 1 | Ileocolonic involvement: 2 | |
| Ileocolonic involvement: 8 (4 with upper disease and 1 with perianal disease) | Pancolitis: 6 | ||
| Two with isolated upper disease |
1
There were no significant differences in age (P = 0.81), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR; P = 0.25), or hematocrit (P = 0.11) between the IBD subtypes as determined by ANOVA.
2
Mean ± SD (all such values).