Table 1.

General characteristics of the IPAA UC patients.

	Normal Pouch	Pouchitis
	(n = 21)	(n = 13)
Gender (female %)	12 (57%)	4 (31%)
Mean age at recruitment (years SE)	48.2 (3.1)	49.3 (3.9)
Mean age at diagnosis (years SE)	33.9 (2.9)	34.4 (4.3)
Time from surgery to sample collection (years SE)	7.8 (1.2)	8.1 (1.7)
Mean age at surgery	40.8 (3.1)	41.6 (4.2)
Antibiotic previous month (% using)	0 (0%)	3 (25%)
Antibiotics ever (% used)	1 (4.8%)	3 (23%)