Table 4. Life expectancy from continuing (C) or withdrawing (W) maintenance therapy with thiopurines in 10,000 simulations of CD cohorts in prolonged remission.

	CD patients without extensive colitis						CD patients with extensive colitis
	C	95% CI		W	95% CI		C	95% CI		W	95% CI
Life expectancy, age at death, years	77.80	72.91	83.68	77.77	72.77	83.71	77.54	72.53	83.55	77.35	72.29	83.49
Loss in life expectancy as compared to general population, years	-0.47	-0.66	-0.13	-0.50	-0.80	-0.10	-0.74	-1.04	-0.26	-0.93	-1.28	-0.32
Proportion of preferred strategy	52.2%			47.8%			93.7%			6.3%