Anemia in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Outpatients: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Etiology

Table 3

Etiology of the anemia on patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

	ACD	deficiency	IDA	ACD + IDA
	(%)	(%)	(%)	(%)
Crohn’s disease ()	6	5	10^∗	3
Ulcerative colitis ()	6	5	6	1
Total ()	12	10	16	4

ACD: anemia of chronic disease; IDA: iron deficiency anemia.
^∗One Crohn’s disease patient presented with concomitant IDA and folate deficiency.