Table 5. Distribution of the sex and age of the participants investigated by Mueller et[22], and the control group and the patients in this study.

	Control group of Mueller et al. [22] n = 69	Own control group n = 23	IBD patients n = 59	CD patients n = 37	UC patients n = 22
sex
female	36 (52%)	12 (52%)	32 (54%)	22 (59%)	10 (45%)
male	33 (48%)	11 (48%)	27 (46%)	15 (41%)	12 (55%)
age
mean	29	41	42	42	42
minimum	15	20	21	25	21
maximum	75	66	69	69	65
15–34 years	57 (83%)	7 (30%)	19 (32%)	13 (35%)	6 (27%)
35–54 years	10 (14%)	12 (52%)	29 (49%)	17 (46%)	12 (55%)
55–75 years	2 (3%)	4 (18%)	11 (19%)	7 (19%)	4 (18%)