Table 2.

Demographic and disease-associated parameters for Crohn patients and healthy volunteers

Collective	Crohn patients (n = 55)		Healthy volunteers (n = 75)
Gender	Female (n = 29)	Male (n = 26)	Female (n = 42)	Male (n = 33)
Mean age (years)	37.1 ± 13.0	42.7 ± 13.6	34.2 ± 14.3	32.8 ± 13.6
Disease duration (years)	15.5 ± 9.5	12.6 ± 7.8	–	–
Extraintestinal manifestations	52%	38%	–	–
BMI	22.4 ± 4.8	23.1 ± 3.6	–	–

All data are presented as mean ± SD or %, respectively

BMI body mass index