Association of Fucosyltransferase 2 Gene Polymorphisms with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients from Southeast China

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of IBD patients and the controls.

Characteristics	UC	CD	Controls	value
Total number	396	275	502
Sex (female/male)	164/232	121/154	226/276	0.549
Age (years) [mean (SD)]	38.98 (16.01)	36.23 (15.25)	37.05 (14.99)	0.051
Age of onset (years) [mean (SD)]	33.04 (13.81)	31.20 (15.67)		0.109
Smoker/nonsmoker	69/327	56/219	82/420	0.376

UC, ulcerative colitis. CD, Crohn’s disease. SD, standard deviation. values were calculated by t-test or chi-squared test.