Research Article
Prevalence of Joint Hypermobility and Patterns of Articular Manifestations in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Table 3
Demographic and clinical data of IBD patients and controls.
| | Crohn’s disease | Ulcerative colitis | Controls |
| | N | 49 | 34 | 96 |
| | Number of participants | 41 | 28 | 67 | | Sex (M/F) | 22/19 | 15/13 | 38/29 | | Age (range) | 32 (18–50) | 32.5 (18–49) | 32 (18–50) | | Disease duration in years (range) | 3 (0.1–21) | 5 (0.1–20) | | | Patients on oral steroids the past year (%) | 17 (41.4) | 11 (39.2) | | | Joint Hypermobility (%) | 29 (70.3) | 10 (35.7) | 17 (25.4) | | Median Beighton Scores [range] | | | | | In total population | 4 | 3 | 2.5 | | In hypermobile subjects | 5 | 5 | 5 | | Articular Manifestations (%) | | | | | Spondylarthropathy (SpA)† | 5 (12.2) | 7 (25) | | | Hypermobility Syndrome (HMS) | 5 (12.2) | 1 (3.57) | | | Overlap symptoms (SpA & HMS) | 7 (17.1) | 0 | | | Non specific or Degenerative Symptoms | 11 (26.8) | 7 (25) | | | Patients excluded from the study | | | | | Age restriction | 5 | 5 | | | Spondylarthropathies (AS) | 3 | 1 | |
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Data are expressed as medians along with minimum and maximum values
Arthritis which does not influence the Beighton score counting.
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