The Th17/Treg Immune Imbalance in Ulcerative Colitis Disease in a Chinese Han Population

Table 1

Demographic details and clinical characteristics of UC patients and healthy subjects.

	UC group	Control group	value
	()	()
Male sex, number (%)	51 (56.7)	17 (56.7)	1.000
Age, year	37.19 ± 8.50	36.30 ± 9.12	0.889
Clinical activity index	6.80 ± 2.31	—	—
Endoscopic index	5.16 ± 1.99	—	—
IL-17 (pg/mL)	24.86 ± 7.44	13.49 ± 1.87	<0.001
TGF-β1 (pg/mL)	31.77 ± 9.27	37.01 ± 7.75	0.002
Th17 (%)	1.80 ± 0.82	0.23 ± 0.12	<0.001
Treg (%)	7.25 ± 1.04	10.14 ± 0.59	<0.001

The numbers are shown as mean ± SD.