Table 2

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 330 Crohn’s disease patients

Total No330
Sex (M/F)137/193
Age at diagnosis (y)
    Mean28.1
    Median24.6
    Range3.0–82.2
    Interquartile range20.2; 31.9
Follow up (y)
    Mean16.9
    Median14.3
    Range0.42–56.8
    Interquartile range8.5; 24.0
Jewish (%)3 (0.9)
Family history of IBD in 1st or 2nd degree relative (%)118 (35.7)
Smoking habit (%)
    Never131 (39.7)
    Ex112 (33.9)
    Current87 (26.4)
Disease location (%)
    Ileal255 (77.3)
    Colonic201 (60.9)
    Perianal144 (43.6)
    No perianal186 (56.4)
Disease behaviour (%)
    Stenotic disease237 (71.8)
    Fistulating118 (35.8)
    Severe inflammatory colonic disease65 (19.7)
Extraintestinal manifestations (%)
    Type 1 peripheral arthropathy45 (13.6)
    Type 2 peripheral arthropathy15 (4.5)
    Ankylosing spondylitis7 (2.1)
    Erythema nodosum31 (9.4)
    Pyoderma gangrenosum5 (1.5)
    Uveitis16 (4.8)
    Primary sclerosing cholangitis6 (1.8)