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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2012 Aug 26;58(5):1322–1328. doi: 10.1007/s10620-012-2373-3

Table 1.

Patient Demographics

CD UC CD-O UC-P
Total Patients 1121 597 405 206
Female (%) 72.4% 64.2% 71.6% 69.4%
Age
 Mean 43.9 44.9 48.2 41.6
 Median 44 44 49 42
 IQR 24 23 21 22
Self-Reported Disease Activity
 Remission 24.1% 36.0% 39.8% 41.8%
 Minimal symptoms 33.4% 32.2% 32.8% 30.6%
 Mild symptoms 21.0% 15.9% 13.1% 15.1%
 Moderate symptoms 14.4% 10.2% 10.1% 8.3%
 Severe symptoms 5.1% 5.0% 3.7% 2.4%
Disease Location (CD)*
 UGI 32.0% N/A 39.0% N/A
 Jejunum 21.6% N/A 31.6% N/A
 Ileum 65.0% N/A 68.9% N/A
 Colon 58.0% N/A 88.2% N/A
 Rectum 35.3% N/A 78.5% N/A
Stricture 52.7% N/A 75.3% N/A
Fistula now 7.1% N/A 13.8% N/A
Fistula ever 39.7% N/A 80.5% N/A
Disease location (UC)
 Rectum N/A 5.0% N/A 1.0%
 Rectum/Sigmoid N/A 12.2% N/A 1.5%
 Left-sided N/A 28.0% N/A 9.7%
 Extensive colitis N/A 7.9% N/A 4.9%
 Pancolitis N/A 29.7% N/A 75.7%
 Uncertain N/A 16.6% N/A 6.8%

CD-Crohn’s disease, UC-ulcerative colitis, O-Ostomy, P-Pouch. CD patients with both an ostomy and pouch were included in the CD-O group.

*

Disease location categories are not mutually exclusive. If the participant answered uncertain they were assumed not to have involvement of the bowel segment. 13 participants (1.2%) answered uncertain for all bowel locations, all within the CD no O/P group.