Clinical characteristic | No. in CD population | |
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*Disease behaviour available for 268 patients. †Smoking data available for 287 patients. All clinical data were obtained from the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital Irritable Bowel Disease (IBD) patient database containing patients who were recruited from the Brisbane region. Ethics approval and informed consent were obtained from all participants. | ||
Total | 304 | |
Women:men | 192:112 | |
Mean age now (years) | 40.9 | |
Mean age at diagnosis (years) | 28.4 | |
Mean disease duration (years) | 12.5 | |
Familial:sporadic | 93:211 | |
Location | ||
Ileal/ileocaecal | 134 | |
Colonic | 53 | |
Ileal and colonic | 112 | |
Perianal alone | 4 | |
Disease behaviour* | ||
Stricturing | 75 | |
Penetrating | 107 | |
Inflammatory | 86 | |
Ever stricturing | 123 | |
Never stricturing | 145 | |
Immunosuppressive therapy | 179 | |
Any Crohn’s-related surgery | 236 | |
Bowel resection | 207 | |
Granulomas | 150 of 253 | |
Smoking habit at diagnosis† (%): | ||
Never | 118 (41) | |
Current | 146 (51) | |
Ex-smoker | 23 (8) |