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Published in final edited form as: Dis Colon Rectum. 2011 Dec;54(12):1529–1536. doi: 10.1097/DCR.0b013e31823436a8

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of physician and patient respondents

	Gastroenterologists n = 10	Surgeons n = 7	UC patients living with moderate disease^a n = 69	UC patients postcolectomy n = 150
Mean age, y (range)	48 (33–62)	50 (40–65)	43 (19–76)	48 (18–86)
Male sex, n (%)	7 (70)	3 (43)	39 (57)	66 (44)
White/other, n (%)^*	8 (80)	7 (100)	52 (75)	143 (95)
Mean disease duration, mo (SD)	–	–	116.8 (119.3)	106.4 (106.7)

UC = ulcerative colitis.

Moderate UC is defined as Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index = 4–9.

P < .001.