Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors Family Is Involved in the Response to Treatment and Mild Clinical Course in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis

Table 1

Demographic data and disease characteristics from ulcerative colitis patients and controls.

	Control	Remission UC	Active UC
Mean age (years)	44.4	40.4	39.4
Gender
Female	19	9	15
Male	12	11	11
Clinical course
Initially active and then inactive		10	6
Mild intermittent activity: <2 relapse/year		10	19
Intense intermittent activity: >2 relapse/year		0	0
Continuous activity (refractory to treatment)		0	1
Extension
Pancolitis ()		9	16
Left-sided colitis ()		5	4
Proctosigmoiditis ()		6	6
Extraintestinal manifestation
Present ()		8	9
Absent ()		12	15
Treatment
Monotherapy with 5-aminosalicylates ()		12	7
Combined therapy ()		6	13
Response to treatment
Present ()		17	19
Absent ()		3	7