. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 4.

Published in final edited form as: Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2013 Sep;19(10):2079–2083. doi: 10.1097/MIB.0b013e31829b3f4d

TABLE 1.

Patient Characteristics

	Cases (n = 20)	Controls (n = 20)^a
Men	14	15
Mean age (SD), yr	53 (14.1)	51 (13.1)
Mean UC duration (SD), yr	20 (9.8)	21 (8.5)
Extensive disease (%)^b	17 (85)	15 (75)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (%)	4 (20)	2 (10)
Inflammation score¹⁵	0.19	0.78^c

β-Actin did not amplify in samples from 5 cases and 5 controls.

Proximal to the splenic flexure.

P = 0.0007, all other comparisons nonsignificant.