Altered Chemokine Signalling in Endothelial Progenitor Cells from Acute Ulcerative Colitis Patients

Table 2

Summary of values for multivariate analysis of variance statistics in AUC and RUC patients.

	AUC ()		RUC ()
	EPCs	CXCR4^+-EPCs	EPCs	CXCR4^+-EPCs
Age (years)	P = 0.06	P = 0.06	P = 0.23	P = 0.17
Duration of the disease	P = 0.65	P = 0.26	P = 0.40	P = 0.14
Localization
Cholic
Pancholic	P = 0.92	P = 0.46	P = 1.00	P = 1.00
Ileum
Therapy
Glucocorticoids	P = 0.04	P = 0.23	—	—
Mesalazine	—	—	P = 0.90	P = 0.10
Azathioprine	P = 0.48	P = 0.80	P = 0.49	P = 0.01
Cyclosporine	P = 0.81	P = 0.38	P = 0.51	P < 0.01
Methotrexate	P = 0.77	P = 0.64	—	—

indicates sample size. AUC = active ulcerative colitis; RUC = remitting ulcerative colitis. In bold are reported significant values. Hyphen was used when statistical analysis was not performed because of missing data for that trait (see Table 1 for details).