Table 5 Correlation between bacterial copies and patient characteristics and biomarkers in the whole group, CD group and UC group.

From: Presence of viable gram-positive bacteria in blood of patients with inflammatory bowel disease is not affected by treatment

 

CD + UC

CD

UC

CC

P-value

CC

P-value

CC

P-value

Age

0.002

0.992

0.130

0.510

-0.173

0.478

BMI

0.195

0.189

0.134

0.498

0.338

0.157

Age at diagnosis

-0.148

0.320

-0.130

0.510

-0.158

0.519

Disease duration

0.197

0.184

0.283

0.145

-0.035

0.887

Pack-years of smoking

-0.212*

0.152

-0.273

0.160

-0.381*

0.108

Calprotectin

-0.350*

0.265

-0.587

0.221

-0.184

0.727

Hemoglobin

-0.244

0.115

-0.346

0.083

-0.077

0.768

CRP

0.377*

0.013

0.360*

0.071

0.447*

0.072

Albumin

-0.285

0.064

-0.325

0.105

-0.212

0.414

  1. *Spearman’s correlation, CC = correlation coefficient.
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