Routine diagnosis of intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn's disease in Southern India

Table 2 Symptoms, signs and disease associated factors of intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn’s disease n (%)

Symptoms, signs and factors	ITB (n = 38)	CD (n = 37)	P value
Duration of illness prior to care (mo), median	6	6	0.581
Min-Max	0-60	1-78
Body mass index, median	19.6	22.7	0.011
Min-Max	11.2-26.0	15.6-31.2
Waist circumference (cm), median (inter quartile range)	77 (11)	80 (15)	0.821
Change in bowel habit	28/37 (76)	34 (92)	0.112
Weight loss in history of current complaint	27/37 (73)	14 (38)	< 0.012
Malaise in history of current complaint	23/37 (62)	32 (87)	0.032
Abdominal pain in history of current complaint	35 (92)	33 (89)	0.712
Nausea in history of current complaint	20/37 (54)	31 (84)	0.012
Recent fever	17/37 (47)	9/36 (25)	0.062
Cachexia at examination	22/36 (61)	21 (57)	0.712
Current watery diarrhoea	21/33 (64)	12/36 (33)	0.012
Daily bowel evacuations, median, max (inter quartile range)	3 (3)	3 (0)	0.241
Pain in right lower abd. quadrant on exam	15/28 (54)	27/30 (90)	< 0.012

¹Mann Whitney Wilcoxon Test;

²Pearson χ² Test OR Fischer’s exact test if n in any cell < 5. ITB: Intestinal tuberculosis; CD: Crohn’s disease.