Prevalence of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) among Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Patients in Comparison to Non-IBD Patients in King Abdulaziz Medical City in Jeddah

Table 3

Immunocompromised patient’s characteristics.

Variables	Yes = 78	No = 11	value
Age	50.5 (55.0)	27.0 (34.0)	0.645
Age group
Adult	50 (84.7)	9 (15.2)	0.244
Pediatric	28 (93.3)	2 (6.7)
Gender
Female	32 (88.9)	4 (11.1)	0.768
Male	46 (86.8)	7 (13.2)
BMI	23.6 (12.3)	22.3 (7.7)	0.556
Diagnosis
Crohn disease	0 (0)	1 (100)	0.014
Ulcerative colitis	0 (0)	1 (100)
No IBD	78 (89.7)	9 (10.3)
Method of diagnosis
PCR	69 (86.3)	11 (13.7)	0.234
Culture	9 (100)	0 (0)
Treatment duration	10.0 (7.5)	10.0 (3.0)	0.930
Response to treatment
Recurrent	30 (90.9)	3 (9.1)	0.584
Resolved	47 (85.5)	8 (14.5)
None	1 (100)	0 (0)