Marianne G Chirica, Yiqin Zhu, Wenting Mu, Hanyu Zhou, Jingbo Gong, Raymond C K Chan, Thomas R Kwapil, Howard Berenbaum
Exploring phenotypic overlap across schizotypy and autism spectrum conditions in American and Chinese young adults
Schizophrenia research
genetic biological factors may lead differences disease behavior among children inflammatory bowel disease different races may modified disparities care delivery using kids inpatient database aimed evaluate differences management pediatric patients inflammatory bowel disease race focusing length stay los performed crosssectional analysis using 2000 2012 data kids inpatient database nationally representative database identified pediatric patients 18 years age discharge diagnoses crohns disease cd ulcerative colitis uc used multivariable logistic regression evaluate relationship race los controlling age payer status need surgery year admission identified 27295 hospitalizations children inflammatory bowel disease 62 cd 38 uc compared white patients cd black adjusted odds ratio 137 95 confidence interval 122153 p 0001 hispanic patients adjusted odds ratio 137 95 confidence interval 119159 p 0001 cd demonstrated increased odds los greater 75th percentile compared white patients uc hispanic patients also demonstrated increased odds los greater 75th percentile adjusted odds ratio 120 95 confidence interval 102142 p 0015 controlling age year admission clinical phenotypes black hispanic patients cd hispanic patients uc longer los white patients may due differences providerhospital characteristics socioeconomic differences andor differences genetics biological factors see video abstract supplemental digital content 1 httplinkslwwcomibdb656