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Table 1 Distribution of baseline characteristics of patients at diagnosis and at inclusion

From: A risk score system to timely manage treatment in Crohn’s disease: a cohort study

  

N

%

Median

IQR

Gender

Female

93

58.1

  

Age at diagnosis

   

31

(22.8–42.6)

Age at study enrollment

   

40

(29.1–53.8)

Years from diagnosis to study enrollment

  

6.0

(1.3–11.3)

Smoker at diagnosis

Yes

91

56.9

  

Smoker at study enrollment

Yes

74

46.2

  

Family history

Yes

19

11.9

  

Disease Behavior

B1

40

25.0

  
 

B2

89

55.6

  
 

B3

31

19.4

  

Disease Location

L1

98

61.3

  
 

L2

10

6.3

  
 

L3

51

31.9

  
 

L4

1

0.6

  

Steroids at first flare-up

Yes

50

31.2

  

Perianal Disease at diagnosis

Yes

46

28.8

  

Perianal Disease at study enrollment

Yes

15

9.4

  

Previous surgery

Yes

53

33.1

  

Number of surgery at study enrollment

1

34

   
 

≥ 2

19

   

Extension of intestine resected a (cm)

  

30

(20–40)

Type of anastomosisa

L-L

28

52.8

  
 

T-L

11

20.8

  
 

T-T

10

18.9

  
 

Stoma

1

1.9

  

Abdominal symptoms

Yes

71

44.4

  

Serological inflammatory markers

Yes

94

58.8

  

Extra-intestinal disease

Yes

27

16.9

  

Use of azathioprine

Yes

29

18.1

  

Use of corticosteroids at first flare-up

Yes

50

31.2

  

Use of anti-TNF- α drugs

Yes

15

9.4

  

SICUS FINDINGS

• Site of CD lesion

No lesions

18

11.2

  

Ileal

142

88.8

  

ICA

0

0.0

  

• Intestinal wall thickness (mm)

  

8

(5–10)

• Extension of CD lesion (cm)

  

25

(9–35)

• Presence of strictures

Yes

83

51.9

  

• Presence of fistulas

Yes

29

18.1

  

• Presence of abscesses

Yes

12

7.5

  

• Presence of MFH

Yes

38

23.8

  

• Presence of enlarged nodes

Yes

14

8.8

  

• Presence of enlarged spleen

Yes

34

21.3

  

BMI

   

22

(19.6–25.3)

CDAI

   

54

(24–96)

  1. IQR: Interquartile range (i.e., the first value represents the 25th percentile and the 2nd one the 75th percentile of the distribution); a53 patients had a surgery before study enrollment and 50 among them had an intestinal resection