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Short Communication
Volume 16, Number 4, April 2024, pages 170-173
Rheumatoid Arthritis and Its Implications on Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table
| All patients | RA | No RA | P value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were used to analyze between-group differences for the categorical variables. The student’s t-test was used to analyze group differences for numerical variables. RA: rheumatoid arthritis; BMI: body mass index; SD: standard deviation. | |||||||
| Total number of patients | 3,613 | 848 | 23.47% | 2,765 | 76.53% | ||
| Disease type, n, % | 0.0077 | ||||||
| Crohn’s disease | 1,343 | 37.17% | 348 | 41.04% | 995 | 35.99% | |
| Ulcerative colitis | 2,270 | 62.83% | 500 | 58.96% | 1,770 | 64.01% | |
| Age, mean (SD), range | 53.3 (18.5) | 8 - 99 | 63.2 (15.6) | 18 - 97 | 50.2 (18.2) | 8 - 99 | < 0.0001 |
| Gender, n, % | < 0.0001 | ||||||
| Male | 1,529 | 42.32% | 299 | 35.26% | 1,230 | 44.48% | |
| Female | 2,084 | 57.68% | 549 | 64.74% | 1,535 | 55.52% | |
| Mortality, n, % | 172 | 4.76% | 62 | 7.31% | 110 | 3.98% | < 0.0001 |
| Ethnic (Hispanic or Latino), n, % | 72 | 1.99% | 11 | 1.30% | 61 | 2.21% | 0.0791 |
| Race, n, % | 0.0058 | ||||||
| White | 3,321 | 91.92% | 801 | 94.46% | 2,520 | 91.17% | |
| Black | 178 | 4.93% | 32 | 3.77% | 146 | 5.28% | |
| All others | 113 | 3.13% | 15 | 1.77% | 98 | 3.55% | |
| BMI, mean (SD), range | 29.3 (7.2) | 15.6 - 57.4 | 30.6 (7.0) | 17.0 - 54.4 | 28.9 (7.2) | 15.6 - 57.4 | < 0.0001 |
| Alcohol use (at least 1 drink per week), n, % | 461 | 12.76% | 105 | 12.38% | 356 | 12.88% | 0.7065 |
| Surgical history, n, % | 1,045 | 28.92% | 277 | 32.90% | 768 | 28.16% | 0.0083 |