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ER was defined as Mayo endoscopic sub-score 0\u20131. In colonoscopy, the colon was evaluated as seven segments: rectum, sigmoid, descending, proximal-transverse, distal-transverse, ascending colon, and cecum. Two biopsies of each segment were evaluated for histological inflammation and graded using the Nancy and Geboes scores. All segment biopsies with Nancy &lt; 1 and Geboes &lt; 2 were defined as HR. Results: The optimum cut-off values for FCP and CRP were 120 \u03bcg\/g and 2.75 mg\/L for ER, respectively. AUC values of FCP and CRP were similar for ER and Mayo-0 disease in ROC analysis. CRP and FCP also had similar performances with these cut-offs regarding ER. While CRP was a predictor to assess the extensiveness of active UC, FCP was not. ROC analysis showed no difference between CRP and FCP regarding HR. Cut-off values for HR were 2.1 mg\/L and 55 \u03bcg\/g for CRP and FCP, respectively. CRP and FCP, in combination with the mentioned cut-off values, detected ER and HR in nearly 2\/3 and \u00bd of the patients, respectively, with high specificity. Conclusions: Reappraised CRP (ER: 2.75 mg\/L, HR: 2.1 mg\/L) has as much diagnostic contribution as relevant FCP in predicting ER and HR and contributes more to revealing the proximal extension in active colitis compared to FCP. 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