Table 3 |
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| Health care consumption pre-treatment and today | |||||||||
| Disease | Pre-treatment | Today | pa | ||||||
| n | Mean | Median | SD | Mean | Median | SD | |||
| All | |||||||||
| Health care visits | 814 | 5.4 | 3 | 7.8 | 3.7 | 2 | 8.0 | <0.001 | |
| Hospitalization | 836 | 2.3 | 0 | 8.5 | 0.7 | 0 | 4.0 | <0.001 | |
| Missed working daysb | 754 | 7.2 | 0 | 16 | 2.5 | 0 | 9.6 | <0.001 | |
| Screening-detected casesc | |||||||||
| Health care visits | 144 | 4.8 | 2 | 9.0 | 4.1 | 1 | 9.9 | 0.001 | |
| Hospitalization | 151 | 3.0 | 0 | 11 | 1.0 | 0 | 5.4 | 0.036 | |
| Missed working daysb | 136 | 9.0 | 0 | 21 | 1.8 | 0 | 7.4 | <0.001 | |
| Recent diagnosisd | |||||||||
| Health care visits | 202 | 5.0 | 3 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 2 | 8.8 | <0.001 | |
| Hospitalization | 200 | 0.62 | 0 | 2.7 | 0.36 | 0 | 1.8 | 0.860 | |
| Missed working daysb | 188 | 7.5 | 0 | 17 | 3.4 | 0 | 13 | <0.001 | |
a Using the sign test.
b Also including missed school days and similar circumstances.
c Primary investigation started based on a disease with known relation to CD or due to heredity for CD.
d CD diagnosis between 2005 and 2009.
Norström et al. BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:125 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-12-125
