Gallbladder bile composition in patients with Crohn’s disease

Table 3 Biliary bile acid composition (mean ± SE)

	Crohn’s disease ileitis or ileocolitis (n = 17)	Crohn’s disease colitis (n = 7)	Crohn’s disease all patients (n = 24)	Gallstone disease(n = 14)
Cholic acid (%)	44.5 ± 3.3	43.2 ± 2.2	44.1 ± 2.4a	35.4 ± 2.7
Chenodeoxycholic acid (%)	43.0 ± 2.9b	45.3 ± 3.8b	43.7 ± 2.3b	31.2 ± 2.4
Deoxycholic acid (%)	8.4 ± 2.3c	10.7 ± 3.2c	9.1 ± 1.8c	30.7 ± 4.3
Lithocholic acid (%)	0.10 ± 0.09c	0.01 ± 0.01c	0.07 ± 0.07c	1.5 ± 0.2
Ursodeoxycholic acid (%)	3.6 ± 1.8	0.7 ± 0.5	2.7 ± 1.3	1.2 ± 0.3

P < 0.05, ²P < 0.01, ³P < 0.001 vs patients with gallstone disease.