PMID- 10459556 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990907 LR - 20190725 IS - 0026-0495 (Print) IS - 0026-0495 (Linking) VI - 48 IP - 8 DP - 1999 Aug TI - Multivariate identification of metabolic features in inflammatory bowel disease. PG - 952-6 AB - Weight loss and malnutrition are commonly reported in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but differences between Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients have rarely been pointed out. In this regard, a sample of 102 consecutive patients with a diagnosis of either CD (n = 63, 33 males) or UC (n = 39, 25 males) based on previously reported clinical, morphologic, and histopathologic criteria were studied. Twenty-six anthropometric and metabolic variables were measured upon admission. Body composition was assessed by both anthropometry and bioimpedance measurements, and energy expenditure and substrate oxidation were assessed by indirect calorimetry. The data were subjected to principal-component analysis and to factor rotation to derive a set of a few basic independent descriptors of the metabolic features of each subject. Six descriptors were found to be responsible for greater than 86% of the total sample variability and to associate very well with mutually disjoint subsets of the original variables. The six summarizing factors are listed in order of decreasing percentage of explained variation (size 41.8%, fatness 17.9%, fuel 12.2%, shape 5.4%, energy 5.2%, and steroid 3.9%). CD and UC patients differed significantly with respect to fatness (CD lower, P = .004) and carbohydrate (CHO) fuel preference (CD lower, P = .030). Hence, CD patients showed a reduced fat mass (FM) compared with UC patients, and from a metabolic point of view, too, CD and UC are not superimposable. In fact, the lower CHO oxidation (CHOox) rate and consequent preferential lipid utilization found in CD patients may be taken into account as a contributing cause of lipid tissue wasting and in planning therapeutic enteral regimens. FAU - Capristo, E AU - Capristo E AD - Istituto di Medicina Interna and Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche-Centro di Studio per la Fisiopatologia dello Shock, Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. FAU - De Gaetano, A AU - De Gaetano A FAU - Mingrone, G AU - Mingrone G FAU - Addolorato, G AU - Addolorato G FAU - Greco, A V AU - Greco AV FAU - Castagneto, M AU - Castagneto M FAU - Gasbarrini, G AU - Gasbarrini G LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Metabolism JT - Metabolism: clinical and experimental JID - 0375267 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Anthropometry MH - *Body Weight MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/*metabolism/physiopathology MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Multivariate Analysis EDAT- 1999/08/25 00:00 MHDA- 1999/08/25 00:01 CRDT- 1999/08/25 00:00 PHST- 1999/08/25 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/08/25 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/08/25 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0026-0495(99)90188-9 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0026-0495(99)90188-9 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Metabolism. 1999 Aug;48(8):952-6. doi: 10.1016/s0026-0495(99)90188-9.