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. 2013 Oct 17;8(10):e77720. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077720

Table 3. Characteristics of individuals in overall data set and in latent classes.

Class 1 Class 2 Class 3 Class 4 Class 5 Class 6 Class 7 Class 8 Class 9 Total
Subjects
407 163 136 33 32 24 18 17 15 845
Age at diagnosis
<17 94 (24%) 53 (33%) 45 (33%) 5 (15%) 0 (0%) 9 (38%) 5 (28%) 8 (47%) 0 (0%) 219 (28%)
17-40 276 (69%) 98 (61%) 79 (59%) 27 (82%) 1 (100%) 14 (58%) 11 (61%) 8 (47%) 1 (100%) 515 (65%)
>=40 30 (8%) 10 (6%) 11 (8%) 1 (3%) 0 (0%) 1 (4%) 2 (11%) 1 (6%) 0 (0%) 56 (7%)
Disease location
Terminal ileum at diagnosis 251 (65%) 122 (77%) 99 (75%) 22 (67%) 1 (100%) 22 (92%) 14 (82%) 8 (53%) 1 (100%) 540 (71%)
Terminal ileum at follow-up 307 (77%) 139 (86%) 116 (85%) 25 (76%) 1 (100%) 24 (100%) 16 (89%) 12 (71%) 1 (100%) 641 (81%)
Colon at diagnosis 286 (74%) 115 (73%) 95 (73%) 25 (78%) 1 (100%) 17 (71%) 13 (76%) 13 (76%) 1 (100%) 566 (74%)
Colon at follow-up 330 (83%) 129 (80%) 112 (83%) 26 (81%) 1 (100%) 20 (83%) 15 (88%) 14 (82%) 1 (100%) 648 (82%)
Disease behaviour
B1 at diagnosis 313 (80%) 120 (75%) 102 (77%) 26 (79%) 0 (0%) 14 (61%) 12 (67%) 16 (94%) 1 (100%) 604 (78%)
B1 at follow-up 187 (48%) 67 (42%) 53 (40%) 14 (42%) 0 (0%) 8 (33%) 8 (44%) 7 (41%) 1 (100%) 345 (45%)
Frequency of hospitalisation
Never 62 (16%) 21 (13%) 19 (15%) 6 (19%) 0 (0%) 4 (17%) 3 (18%) 3 (18%) 0 (0%) 118 (15%)
Intermediate 286 (74%) 125 (79%) 99 (76%) 23 (72%) 1 (100%) 19 (79%) 13 (76%) 10 (59%) 0 (0%) 576 (75%)
Often 41 (11%) 13 (8%) 12 (9%) 3 (9%) 0 (0%) 1 (4%) 1 (6%) 4 (24%) 1 (100%) 76 (10%)
Immunosuppressive medicaments 297 (74%) 125 (77%) 102 (75%) 23 (70%) 1 (100%) 14 (58%) 9 (50%) 13 (76%) 1 (100%) 585 (74%)
Surgery 196 (49%) 87 (54%) 69 (51%) 17 (52%) 1 (100%) 17 (71%) 11 (61%) 9 (53%) 0 (0%) 407 (51%)

Class 5 contains 31 individuals with missing information on all clinical characteristics. Class 9 contains 14 individuals with missing information on all clinical characteristics. For the other classes, the number of individuals with missing information differs between the clinical characteristics.