Research Article
Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Its Effect on Postoperative Complications in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics in CD patients with or without sarcopenia.
| | All patients () | Sarcopenia () | Nonsarcopenia () | value |
| Age, years | | | | 0.985 | Gender | | | | <0.001 | Male | 74 (59.7) | 11 (32.4) | 63 (70.0) | | Smoking | 12 (9.7) | 0 (0) | 12 (13.3) | 0.035 | Alcohol | 7 (5.6) | 0 (0) | 7 (7.8) | 0.188 | BMI | | | | <0.001 | BMI categories | | | | <0.001 | Underweight | 59 (47.6) | 29 (85.3) | 30 (33.3) | | Normal | 57 (46.0) | 4 (11.8) | 53 (58.9) | | Overweight | 8 (6.5) | 1 (2.9) | 7 (7.8) | | Skeletal muscle index (cm2/m2) | | | | <0.001 | Disease duration (months) | | | | 0.867 | Age of onset | | | | 0.492 | ≤16 (A1) | 9 (7.3) | 4 (11.8) | 5 (5.6) | | 17-40 (A2) | 81 (65.3) | 21 (61.8) | 60 (66.7) | | >40 (A3) | 34 (27.4) | 9 (26.5) | 25 (27.8) | | Disease location | | | | 0.063 | Ileum (L1) | 71 (57.3) | 16 (47.1) | 55 (61.1) | | Colon (L2) | 18 (14.5) | 9 (26.5) | 9 (10.0) | | Ileocolon (L3) | 35 (28.2) | 9 (26.5) | 26 (28.9) | | Disease behavior | | | | 0.026 | Nonstricturing, nonpenetrating (B1) | 22 (17.7) | 4 (11.8) | 18 (20.0) | | Stricturing (B2) | 67 (54.0) | 25 (73.5) | 42 (46.7) | | Penetrating (B3) | 35 (28.2) | 5 (14.7) | 30 (33.3) | | Perianal disease | 34 (27.4) | 13 (38.2) | 21 (23.3) | 0.097 | HBI score | | | | 0.179 | Preoperative therapy | | | | 0.712 | No therapy | 22 (17.7) | 8 (23.5) | 14 (15.6) | | Steroid | 20 (16.1) | 6 (17.6) | 14 (15.6) | | 5ASA | 24 (19.4) | 8 (23.5) | 16 (17.8) | | AZA | 36 (29.0) | 8 (23.5) | 28 (31.1) | | MTX | 4 (3.2) | 1 (2.9) | 3 (3.3) | | IFX | 18 (14.5) | 3 (8.8) | 15 (16.7) | | Hemoglobin (g/L) | | | | <0.001 | White cell count (cells ×109/L) | | | | 0.872 | Platelet | | | | 0.128 | Prealbumin (g/L) | | | | 0.030 | Albumin (g/L) | | | | 0.006 |
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BMI: body mass index; HBI: Harvey Bradshaw Index; 5-ASA: 5-aminosalicylate; AZA: Azathioprine; MTX: Methotrexate; IFX: Infliximab. values < 0.05 were highlighted in italic. |