Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with Crohn’s disease treated at two reference centres in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil (2019−2021)
| Hospitalised n=174 (79.1%) | Non-hospitalised n=46 (20.9%) | Total n=220 | |
| Females | 87 (50.0) | 25 (54.3) | 112 (50.9) |
| Urban area | 136 (78.2) | 38 (82.6) | 174 (79.1) |
| Black and brown ethnic | 152 (87.4) | 38 (82.6) | 190 (86.4) |
| Education | |||
| Illiterate | 10 (5.7) | 1 (2.2) | 11 (5.0) |
| Incomplete middle school | 21 (12.0) | 8 (17.4) | 29 (13.2) |
| Complete middle school | 13 (7.5) | 3 (6.5) | 16 (7.3) |
| Incomplete high school | 12 (6.9) | 4 (8.7) | 16 (7.3) |
| Complete high school | 85 (48.9) | 21 (45.6) | 106 (48.1) |
| Higher education | 33 (19.0) | 9 (19.6) | 42 (19.1) |
| Family income of <US$220 | 133 (76.4) | 34 (73.9) | 167 (75.9) |
| Smoker at diagnosis | 20 (11.5) | 4 (8.7) | 24 (10.9) |
| Familial IBD | 15 (8.6) | 5 (10.9) | 20 (9.1) |
| Ulceration at colonoscopy | 132 (75.9) | 28 (60.9) | 160 (72.7) |
| Granuloma at anatomopathological examination | 12 (6.9) | 1 (5.9) | 2,2 (5.9) |
| Steroid use at the first disease occurrence | 119 (68.4) | 24 (52.2) | 143 (65.0) |
IBD, inflammatory bowel disease.