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Correlation of Stool Frequency and Abdominal Pain Measures With Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease.

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BACKGROUND The Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) has been criticized for being weakly correlated with bowel inflammation. We assessed correlation between Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) and individual… Click to show full abstract

BACKGROUND The Crohn's Disease Activity Index (CDAI) has been criticized for being weakly correlated with bowel inflammation. We assessed correlation between Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease (SES-CD) and individual CDAI items stratified by disease location to better understand this relationship. METHODS We pooled patient-level data from 3 placebo-controlled Crohn's disease (CD) trials that tested adalimumab, upadacitinib, and risankizumab. Disease location was defined as ileum only, colon only, or ileocolonic based upon colonoscopy at study entry. Pearson correlation coefficients and linear regression assessed correlations between items of the CDAI and SES-CD. RESULTS A total of 353 patients were included (20.7% ileal, 30.6% colonic, 48.7% ileocolonic disease). Crohn's Disease Activity Index and SES-CD scores were moderately correlated (R = 0.33; P < 0.001). Among CDAI items, the strongest correlations with SES-CD were seen with very soft or liquid stool frequency (SF) and patient-reported outcome 2 (PRO2; which includes SF and abdominal pain score; both R = 0.36; P < 0.001); these correlations were numerically stronger in colonic disease (SF: R = 0.46; P < 0.001; PRO2: R = 0.44; P < 0.001) than in ileal disease (SF: R = 0.14; P = 0.23; PRO2: R = 0.21; P = 0.07), although a test for interaction was not significant. In adjusted linear regression models, the proportion of mucosa that was inflamed and the proportion of mucosa with ulceration were positively correlated, whereas the presence of strictures was inversely correlated with SF. CONCLUSIONS The SF item of the CDAI is moderately correlated with SES-CD and independently correlated with mucosal ulceration, inflammation, and strictures. Understanding why bowel inflammation as measured endoscopically does not correlate more strongly with patients' symptoms could help develop scales that link CD pathology to patient experience.

Keywords: endoscopic score; disease; correlation; crohn disease; simple endoscopic

Journal Title: Inflammatory bowel diseases
Year Published: 2019

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