Table 2.

Relationship between ASCA and study variables.

Variable	p-value	Variables	p-value
age	0.265	Gastritis	0.030
Fever	0.166	Uveitis	0.126
Liver involvement	0.407	Ulcer evidence in endoscopy	0.991
Bile duct involvement	0.407	Evidence of erythema on colonoscopy	0.874
Pancreatitis	0.687	History of blood transfusion	0.678
kidney stone	0.687	Evidence of fragility in colonoscopy	0.223
Amyloidosis	0.687	Lack of vascular pattern on colonoscopy	0.126
thromboembolism	0.477	Evidence of skip area in colonoscopy	0.060
Number of hospitalizations per year	0.289	splenic flexure	0.349
Esophagitis	0.076	pancolitis	0.395

(p-value less than 0.05 is considered statistically significant).