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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dig Dis Sci. 2013 Nov 6;59(2):446–450. doi: 10.1007/s10620-013-2898-0

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of colonoscopies by ethnicity.

AA n=2163 HAs n= 272 P value

Age, median (IQR) 46 (44–48) 45 (42–47) <0.001

Female sex, no (%) 1232 (57%) 154 (57%) 0.9

Screening colonoscopy, no (%) 0.014
Yes 158(7%) 9(3%)
No 2005(93%) 263(97%)

Non-screening indication of colonoscopy, no (%) <0.001
 Abdominal pain 278 (14%) 96 (36%)
 GI bleeding 800 (40%) 96 (37%)
 Anemia 121 (6%) 11 (4%)
 Other/Nonspecific 806 (40%) 60 (23%)

Polyp, no (%) 753 (35%) 50 (18%) <0.001

Polyp location, polyp no (%) 0.6
 Proximal colon 642 (85%) 44 (88%)
 Distal colon 111 (15%) 6 (12%)