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Table 2 Disease activity indices with endoscopic and non-endoscopic components

Disease activity index	Endoscopic variables	Non-endoscopic variable
Powell-Tuck score[20]	Bleeding	Wellbeing, Abdominal pain, stool frequency and consistency, Bleeding, Anorexia, nausea and vomiting, EIM, Temperature
1982
Sutherland index[21]	Friability, Bleeding	Stool frequency, Bleeding, Physician’s rating of disease activity
1987
Mayo score[16]	Erythema, MVP, Friability, erosions, ulcers, spontaneous bleeding	Stool frequency, Bleeding, Physician’s global assessment
1987
Improvement based on individual symptom scores[22]	Mucosal oedema, MVP, Granularity, Friability, Petechiae, Ulceration, Spontaneous bleeding	Rectal bleeding, Stool frequency, Abdominal pain, PFA, PGA
2002

EIM: Extra-Intestinal Manifestations; MVP: Mucosal vascular pattern; PGA: Physician global assessment; PFA: Patient functional assessment.