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. 2017 Apr 13;8(4):e87. doi: 10.1038/ctg.2017.13

Table 1. Patient demographics according to ethnicity.

  Hispanics with IBD N=230
Controls N=698 NHW with IBD N=187    
  US born N=94 Foreign-born N=135 Combined N=229a     Hispanics vs. NHW P value US vs. foreign-born Hispanic P value
Crohn's disease n (%) 58 (62) 84 (62) 142 (63) NA 118.0 (63) 1.00 1.00
Female n (%) 49 (52) 63 (47) 112(49) 226 (32) 99.0 (53) 0.43 0.42
Age of diagnosis mean (years, s.d.) 22.7 (8) 36.6 (14) 30.9 (20) NA 29.2 (16) 0.22 <1.00E-03
Age of symptom onset mean (years, s.d.) 22.0 (9) 36.2 (21) 30.3 (15) NA 27.3 (18) 0.03 <1.00E-03
Disease duration from symptom onset mean (years, s.d.) 8.8 (10) 8.6 (10) 8.7 (10) NA 13.5 (17) <1.00E-03 0.86
Family history, n (%)b 10.0 (11) 20.0 (15) 30.0 (13) 39.0 (21) 0.02 0.04
Active smoking at diagnosisb 10.0 (11) 16.0 (15) 26.0 (13) NA 32.0 (20) 0.11 0.5
CD, n (%) 8.0 (15) 12.0 (17) 20.0 (16) 24.0 (23) 0.22 0.53
UC, n (%) 2.0 (6) 4.0 (11) 6.0 (8) 8.0 (15) 0.43 0.39

IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; NHW, non-hispanic whites; s.d., standard deviation; UC, ulcerative colitis.

a

One patient was missing country of birth.

b

Data was incomplete for some UC patients

The bold highlights the significant P-values.