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Published in final edited form as: Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2015 Nov 5;43(1):52–60. doi: 10.1111/apt.13454

Table 2.

Admission laboratory characteristics of included patients hospitalized for Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis exacerbations

Laboratory test	Ulcerative Colitis			Crohn’s Disease
Laboratory test	Steroids Alone	Steroids + Antibiotics	P-value	Steroids Alone	Steroids + Antibiotics	P-value
Hemoglobin (in g/dL)	11.5	11.4	0.85	12.6	12.2	0.28
WBC Count (/mm³)	11.3	12.5	0.15	9.7	10.6	0.09
Platelets (in thousands/mm³)	407.3^*	513.8^*	0.001	396.2	413.3	0.47
Albumin (in g/dL)	4.0	3.4	0.30	3.9	3.7	0.09
ESR (in mm)	36.9	39.3	0.62	31.9	35.2	0.45
CRP (in mg/L)	46.2	63.5	0.12	47.2	58.8	0.20

^*

P-value <0.05