Clinical Study
Acute Diverticulitis in the Young: The Same Disease in a Different Patient
Table 1
Patients’ characteristics.
| Patients | years | 50 years | |
| Number | 23 | 57 | | Sex (male/female) | 3.5/1.0 | 1.0/1.1 | 0.046 | Age (years), median (95% CI) | 43 (39.01–45.00) | 67 (64.00–70.21) | 0.001 | Range (years) | 33–50 | 51–87 | BMI, median (95% CI) | 26.2 (25.88–28.23) | 26 (24.31–27.06) | 0.302 | Range | 21–46 | 19.5–37.5 | | BMI ≥ 25 | 21/23 (91.3%) | 36/57 (63.1%) | 0.024 |
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CI: confidence interval; BMI: body mass index.
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