Table 3.

Correlation between the CDAI score and amino acid concentrations in patients with the ileo-colonic, ileal, and colonic types of CD (n = 29).

AAs	All (n = 29)		Ileo-colonic type (n = 17)		Ileal type (n = 7)		Colonic type (n = 5)
	r	P valuea	r	P valuea	r	P valuea	r	P valuea
EAAs
Thr	−.36	.054	−.34	.17	−.44	.32	−.83	.07
Val	−.58	.0009	−.57	.0174	−.47	.29	−.90	.0349
Met	−.46	.0124	−.44	.07	−.17	.71	−.87	.053
Iso	−.27	.15	−.29	.25	.17	.71	−.50	.39
Leu	−.47	.0105	−.47	.055	.03	.94	−.95	.0124
Phe	−.37	.0483	−.29	.25	.30	.50	−.95	.0115
His	−.64	.0002	−.73	.0008	−.39	.38	−.77	.12
Trp	−.65	.0001	−.77	.0003	−.18	.70	−.80	.10
Lys	−.39	.03	−.46	.07	.02	.59	−.68	.33
NEAAs
Asp	.36	.06	.31	.23	−.01	.98	.69	.19
Ser	−.38	.0444	−.35	.17	−.85	.0164	−.29	.64
Asn	−.06	.76	−.0017	.99	.00	.99	−.53	.35
Glu	−.24	.21	−.22	.39	.07	.88	−.77	.13
Gln	−.34	.06	−.57	.0164	.23	.62	−.24	.69
Pro	−.28	.13	−.34	.18	−.01	.98	−.23	.70
Gly	−.23	.23	−.19	.45	−.57	.18	−.13	.83
Ala	−.52	.0042	−.62	.0073	−.07	.88	−.85	.06
Cys	−.24	.20	−.35	.17	.03	.94	−.50	.39
Tyr	−.51	.0049	−.42	.09	−.42	.34	−.99	.0017
Arg	−.22	.24	−.44	.07	−.26	.59	.56	.33
TAAs	−.56	.0015	−.63	.0063	−.26	.58	−.68	.19
NEAAs	−.48	.0082	−.56	.02	−.23	.62	−.47	.42
EAAs	−.61	.0004	−.66	.0037	−.24	.59	−.92	.0230
BCAAs	−.53	.0031	−.52	.0327	−.24	.61	−.90	.0328

Abbreviations: AAs, amino acids; BCAAs, branched-chain amino acids; EAAs, essential amino acids; NEAAs, nonessential amino acids; NS, nonsignificant; TAAs, total amino acids.

^aPearson correlation coefficient test.