Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with IBD and controls.

	Biopsy samples
	Con	CD	UC
Numbers of patients	21	44	39
Age (y)	35.7 ± 8.9	44.2 ± 16.8	39.6 ± 12.3
Gender
Male	9	21	22
Female	12	23	17
Disease duration (month)		41.2 ± 16.7	44.2 ± 23.4
Current therapy
5-Aminosalicylates		34	33
Immunosuppressants		0	0
Biologics		0	0
Nutritional therapy		4	0
Disease extent (UC) ∗
E1			13
E2			16
E3			10
Disease location (CD) ∗
L1		8
L2		16
L3		20
L4		0

^∗According to the Montreal classification system.