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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Gastroenterol. 2015 Mar 3;110(3):415–422. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2015.21

Table 1. Baseline demographics.

Retroflexion
(N=450)
Forward view
(N=400)
P value
Age 59.9±8.3 59.0±8.3 0.94
Female gender 267 234 0.8
BMI 29.3±6.5 30.3±7 0.28
Indication 0.55
 Screening 289 264
 Surveillance 161 136
Colon cancer in first degree
relative
71 64 0.93
History of diabetes mellitus 94 89 0.63
Current smoker 93 74 0.43
Endoscope used 0.19
 Pediatric 410 347
 Standard 40 26
Quality of bowel preparation 0.84
 BBPS 6 100 93
 BBPS 7 61 47
 BBPS 8 87 74
 BBPS 9 202 186
Sedation
 Monitored anesthesia carea 359 319 0.99
 Conscious sedationb 97 81
Prior abdominal surgery 107 82 0.25
Fellow involvement 0.35
 Fellow present 111 110
 No fellow 339 290

BBPS, Boston Bowel Preparation Scale score; BMI, body mass index.

a

Monitored anesthesia care: deep sedation provided by an anesthesiologist.

b

Conscious sedation: moderate procedural sedation administered by a nurse under the direction of the endoscopist.