Quality of Life in Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis: A Study at University of California, San Francisco

1. Quality of Life in ……….. Your name here1, Your name here1, Your name here1, Your name here1, Name here2, and Name here2 1Department of…….., 2 Department of………, University of California, San Francisco, CA CTSI BACKGROUND RESULTS RESULTS • Ulcerative colitis (UC) in children can have a negative impact on. • Prior studies in adults. • 6/16 patients (37.5%) had scores of 7 (maximum) across all social function questions, which was not found for any other system. • QOL were similar for patients …… AIM To determine CONCLUSIONS METHODS • Children ≤12 years ……… • Patients with greatest number of episodes ………. • Patients ≤19 years at the time of survey showed ………………. (Figure 2). • Our results suggest excellent outcome …………….. • Subjects: xxpatients xxxxx for UC before 20 years of age between 1980 and 2005. • 6 Male; 13 Caucasian, 3 African-American. • 9/16 developed …….. • Data Analysis • Median, Interquartile Range (IQR); • Mann Whitney U Rank Sum Test, • p≤0.05 = significant. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Support in part by NIH grants DK060617 (DD, MBH) and DK08085 (JMW)