Table 1.

NPC test for comparisons between CD and UC patients

Variables	Crohn’s disease	Ulcerative colitis	p-value
Diagnosis age	43.80 ± 21.59	45.87 ± 20.83	0.0281
Gender (M% /F%)	49.3 /50.7	57.7/42.3	0.0019
Smoking habit	43.9 /56.1	35.2 / 64.8	0.0001
Immun. therapy	38.4/61.6	26.4 / 73.6	0.0002
Duration of therapy	12.27 ± 8.67	14.92 ± 9.84	0.0032
Biological drugs (BD)	18.4/81.6	8.7/91.3	0.0004
Duration of BD	12.23 ± 7.33	16.03 ± 9.41	0.0053
Re-hospitalization	45.6 / 54.4	27.8 / 72.2	0.0008
Adverse events	17.9 / 82.1	9.2 / 90.8	0.0007
Infections	7.0/93.0	7.6 / 92.4	0.6274
Cancers	3.6 / 96.4	2.5 / 97.5	0.2755
Diabetes	5.6 / 94.4	10.6/89.4	0.0006
Hypertension	20.3 / 79.7	19.6/80.4	0.7376
Heart failure	5.7 / 94.3	5.7 / 94.3	0.9852
Kidney failure	2.1 /97.9	2.6 / 97.4	0.5074
Pulmonary failure	3.6/96.4	5.1 /94.9	0.1553
Neuropathy	1.7/98.3	1.6/98.4	0.8858
Liver disease	1.6/98.4	1.3 / 98.7	0.6075
Charlson score	1.47 ± 1.81	1.20 ± 1.39	0.0316
Surgery	19.7 /80.3	5.3 / 94.7	0.0003
Final exitus	97.9/2.1	97.6 / 2.4	0.6643
Follow-up time	34.57 ± 4.54	34.92 ± 4.16	0.0577
COMBINED p-value			0.0000

Note: the values in italics identify the significant variables (level α = 0.05)