Exploring Different Effects of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN) and Corticosteroids on the Gut Microbiome in Crohn’s Disease Based on a Three-Stage Strategy

Table 1

Baseline characteristics of the study population.

	Corticosteroids	EEN
N	8	8
Age at diagnosis	29.3	30.8
Males	4	5
Disease location
Ileal (L1)	2	1
Colonic (L2)	2	2
Ileocolonic (L3)	4	5
Disease behavior
B1	3	2
B2	5	6
History of corticosteroids	3	1
CDAI	274.81	253.86

Abbreviations: EEN: exclusive enteral nutrition; CDAI: Crohn’s disease activity index.