Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient

Table 1

Patients’ characteristics.

Patients	≤50 years	>50 years	𝑃
Number	23	57
Sex (male/female)	3.5/1.0	1.0/1.1	0.046
Age (years), median (95% CI)	43 (39.01–45.00)	67 (64.00–70.21)	0.001
Range (years)	33–50	51–87
BMI, median (95% CI)	26.2 (25.88–28.23)	26 (24.31–27.06)	0.302
Range	21–46	19.5–37.5
BMI ≥ 25	21/23 (91.3%)	36/57 (63.1%)	0.024

CI: confidence interval; BMI: body mass index.