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Gut 42:387-391 doi:10.1136/gut.42.3.387
  • Inflammation

Peripheral arthropathies in inflammatory bowel disease: their articular distribution and natural history

Table 5

Associations with other features of disease

No joint problems Type 1 arthropathy Type 2 arthropathy
Ulcerative colitis
No of patients 830 35 24
Erythema nodosum 4  (0.5) 3  (8.6)9-150 1  (4.2)
Uveitis 10 (1.2) 6 (17.1) 4 (16.7)
Pyoderma gangrenosum 4 (0.5) 0 1 (4.2)
Surgery 81 (9.7) 6 (17.2) 4 (16.7)
Crohn’s disease
No of patients 339 29 19
Erythema nodosum 7 (2.1) 7 (24.1)§ 0
Uveitis 9 (2.9) 5 (17.2) 5 (26.3)**
Pyoderma gangrenosum 5 (1.5) 1 (3.4) 0
Surgery 192 (56.8) 6 (20.7)†† 8 (42.1)
  • Data are expressed as number (%).

  • 9-150 p = 2.0×10−5; p = 9.6×10−9; p = 1.2×10−7; §p = 5.0×10−8; p = 0.000592; **p = 5.1×10−6; ††p = 8.3×10−5.

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