Maintenance of Remission with Partial Enteral Nutrition Therapy in Pediatric Crohn’s Disease: A Retrospective Study

Table 1

Basic characteristics of the study population at the time of diagnosis.

Covariate	PEN group; = 42	Control group; = 45	value
Age (yr), median 25–75%	11.5 9.2–13.7	14.7 12.7–16.3	0.001
Sex, male, (%)	30 (71)	31 (69)	0.82
Disease location at presentation, (%)
L1 (distal ileum ± cecum)	21 (50)	28 (62)	0.28
L2 (colon)	12 (28)	20 (44)	0.18
L3 (ileocolon)	13 (31)	9 (20)	0.32
L4a (upper GI, proximal to ligament of Treitz)	28 (67)	29 (64)	1.00
L4b (upper GI, distal to ligament of Treitz)	1 (2)	5 (11)	0.20
Perianal disease	4 (10)	7 (16)	1.00

yr, years. Calculated with Chi-square or Fisher’s exact test for categorical data and independent samples -test for continuous variables.