Disease Activity Patterns Recorded Using a Mobile Monitoring System Are Associated with Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Crohn's Disease

作者：Kim Eun Soo; Kim Sung Kook; Jang Byung Ik^*; Kim Kyeong Ok; Kim Eun Young; Lee Yoo Jin; Lee Hyun Seok; Kwak Sang Gyu

来源：Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2018, 63(9): 2220-2230.

DOI：10.1007/s10620-018-5110-8

• Crohn's disease
• Disease activity pattern
• Smartphone

Background Usefulness of a mobile monitoring system for Crohn's disease (CD) has not been evaluated. We aimed to determine whether disease activity patterns depicted using a web-based symptom diary for CD could indicate disease clinical outcomes.
Methods Patients with CD from tertiary hospitals were prospectively invited to record their symptoms using a smartphone at least once a week. Disease activity patterns for at least 2 months were statistically classified into good and poor groups based on two factors in two consecutive time frames; the degree of score variation (maximum-minimum) in each frame and the trend (upward, stationary, or downward) of patterns indicated by the difference in the mean activity scores between two time frames.
Results Overall, 220 (82.7%) and 46 (17.3%) patients were included in good and poor groups, respectively. Poor group was significantly more associated with disease-related hospitalization (p = 0.004), unscheduled hospital visits (p = 0.005), and bowel surgery (p < 0.001) during the follow-up period than good group. In the multivariate analysis, poor patterns [odds ratio (OR) 2.62, p = 0.006], stricturing (OR 4.19, p < 0.001) or penetrating behavior (OR 2.27, p = 0.012), and young age at diagnosis (OR 1.06, p = 0.019) were independently associated with disease-related hospitalization. Poor patterns (OR 4.06, p = 0.006) and an ileal location (OR 5.79, p = 0.032) remained independent risk factors for unscheduled visits. Poor patterns (OR 15.2, p < 0.001) and stricturing behavior (OR 9.77, p = 0.004) were independent risk factors for bowel surgery.
Conclusion The disease activity patterns depicted using a web-based symptom diary were useful indicators of poor clinical outcomes in patients with CD.

• 出版日期2018-9