Clinical Study
Low Body Mass Index Can Identify Majority of Osteoporotic Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Missed by Current Guidelines
Table 1
Characteristics of patients in the “not at-risk” and “at-risk” groups defined by absence or presence of fulfilling current screening guidelines.
| Characteristic | Not at-risk () | At-risk () | P value |
| Demographics | | | | Age ± SD (years) | | | 0.01 | Female gender (%) | 69.5 | 58.2 | 0.15 | Ethnicity (%) | | | 0.43 | White | 90.5 | 86.2 | | African American | 5.3 | 10.3 | | Other | 4.3 | 3.5 | | Risk factors (%) | | | | Crohn’s disease (%) | 63.2 | 63.8 | 1.00 | Smoking (%) | | | 0.17 | Current | 24.5 | 14.4 | | Past | 24.5 | 39.7 | | Colectomy (%) | 4.2 | 8.3 | 0.26 | Partial | 30.9 | 35.3 | | Complete | 26.6 | 18.2 | | Low body mass index (<21 kg/m2) (%) | 47.4 | 48.1 | 1.00 | Outcome (%) | | | 0.008 | Normal Bone mineral density | 46.3 | 29.1 | | Osteopenia | 41.1 | 48.0 | 0.52 | Osteoporosis | 12.6 | 23.0 | 0.52 |
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Data reported in percentage (%) for categorical variables, meanstandard deviation (SD) for continuous variables.
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