CRP and irritable bowel syndrome: Endoscopic examination of 71 (CD: n = 36 and UC: n = 35) of the 118 IBD patients was available and this subgroup was used to analyze correlations between the individual serum biomarkers and clinical (HBI/SCCAI), biochemical (CRP, fecal calprotectin) and endoscopic (CD: SES-CD score, UC: Mayo score, IBD: composite endoscopy score) measures of disease activity using Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (ρ).