Research Article
Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with Endoscopic Severity in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Table 2
Comparisons of characteristics between patient group and healthy controls.
| Characteristics | Healthy controls (%) patients with colorectal cancer | Patients with Crohn’s disease (%) | value |
| Age [median (quartiles)] | 27 (18–57) | 27 (22–35) | 0.646 | Male | 27 (67.5%) | 96 (73%) | 0.575 | Serum 25OHD level, nmol/L [median (quartiles)] | 49.9 (44.9–57.4) | 21.1 (11.8–32.3) | 0.007 | Detected in spring and winter/Detected in summer and autumn | 17/23 | 64/67 | 0.588 | Nonsmoking [n (%)] | 32 (80%) | 120 (91.6%) | 0.302 | BMI [median (quartiles)] | 20 (17.3–22.1) | 19.0 (17.0–21.3) | 0.701 |
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BMI: body mass index.
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