. 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%)