Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Patients and Control Patients

	Patients With IBD (n = 1032)	Control Patients (n = 410)	P
Sex, female	690 (66.9%)	328 (80%)	<0.001
Age, y	43 (33/54)	35 (26/42)	<0.001
Body weight, kg	72 (62/86)	72.7 (63/87)	0.845
Smoker	177 (17.1%)	89 (21.7%)	0.001
Former smoker	300 (29.1%)	74 (18.4%)	<0.001
No comorbidity	597 (57.8%)	141 (34.4%)	<0.001
Stroke	19 (1.8%)	0	0.073
Pulmonary disease	126 (12.2%)	39 (9.5%)	0.008
Diabetes mellitus	52 (5.0%)	13 (3.2%)	0.618
Arterial hypertension	202 (19.6%)	52 (12.7%)	0.092
Coronary heart disease	19 (1.8%)	4 (1.0%)	1.000
Peripheral arterial disease	12 (1.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0.522
Chronic kidney disease	43 (4.2%)	6 (1.5%)	0.451
Chronic liver disease	48 (4.7%)	0	0.003
Rheumatic disease	111 (17.8%)	7 (1.7%)	0.001
Psoriasis	86 (8.3%)	14 (3.4%)	0.486
Cancer	71 (6.9%)	14 (3.4%)	1.000
Solid organ transplant	2 (0.2%)	4 (1.0%)	0.007

All data are presented as mean and first/third quartile or as number and percentage