Title: Clinical Features and Fecal Microbiota Characteristics of Patients with Both Ulcerative
Colitis and Axial Spondyloarthritis
Version: 1 Date: 06 Dec 2023
Reviewer's report:
This was a well conducted study to analyse the fecal dysbiosis in patients with UC and axial
involvement. I just have two comments:
1. Paragraph 2 in Discussion section: It was written that risk factors for the development of
axial SpA was performed but, the results in Table 1 can at best be described as association of
clinical features in patients with or without axial SpA. This cannot be interpreted as risk factors
for developing axial involvement in UC patients. I suggest to delete this paragraph as this is also
not the ai of this study.
2. In the paragraph on limitations of the study, I am not able to understand the following sentence
"The results of this study are only indicative of the diagnosis and treatment of parenteral axSpA
in some patients with UC at our medical center." I suggest to rephrase this sentence so that
readers can understand what the authors meant.
3. Title of References is in Chinese script, please translate it to English.
Title: Clinical Features and Fecal Microbiota Characteristics of Patients with Both Ulcerative
Colitis and Axial Spondyloarthritis
Version: 1 Date: 06 Dec 2023
Reviewer's report:
This was a well conducted study to analyse the fecal dysbiosis in patients with UC and axial
involvement. I just have two comments:
1. Paragraph 2 in Discussion section: It was written that risk factors for the development of
axial SpA was performed but, the results in Table 1 can at best be described as association of
clinical features in patients with or without axial SpA. This cannot be interpreted as risk factors
for developing axial involvement in UC patients. I suggest to delete this paragraph as this is also
not the ai of this study.
2. In the paragraph on limitations of the study, I am not able to understand the following sentence
"The results of this study are only indicative of the diagnosis and treatment of parenteral axSpA
in some patients with UC at our medical center." I suggest to rephrase this sentence so that
readers can understand what the authors meant.
3. Title of References is in Chinese script, please translate it to English.
Please review this paper.
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Title: Clinical Features and Fecal Microbiota Characteristics of Patients with Both Ulcerative
Colitis and Axial Spondyloarthritis
Version: 1 Date: 06 Dec 2023
Reviewer's report:
This was a well conducted study to analyse the fecal dysbiosis in patients with UC and axial
involvement. I just have two comments:
1. Paragraph 2 in Discussion section: It was written that risk factors for the development of
axial SpA was performed but, the results in Table 1 can at best be described as association of
clinical features in patients with or without axial SpA. This cannot be interpreted as risk factors
for developing axial involvement in UC patients. I suggest to delete this paragraph as this is also
not the ai of this study.
2. In the paragraph on limitations of the study, I am not able to understand the following sentence
"The results of this study are only indicative of the diagnosis and treatment of parenteral axSpA
in some patients with UC at our medical center." I suggest to rephrase this sentence so that
readers can understand what the authors meant.
3. Title of References is in Chinese script, please translate it to English.
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