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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: Digestion. 2015 Jul 16;92(2):60–65. doi: 10.1159/000376574

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of patients based on DD status

Patient without DD
(n = 1,284)
Patient with DD
(n = 702)
p value
Age, years, median (IQR) 56 (51–62) 60 (54–68) <0.001
Gender, male, n (%) 568 (44) 299 (43) 0.5
Colonoscopy indications, n (%)
  Screening colonoscopy 414 (32) 136 (19) <0.001
  Diagnostic colonoscopy 870 (68) 566 (81)
  Family history of cancer 29 (2) 15 (2) 0.9
  High risk for polyp 24 (2) 20 (3) 0.16
  Abdominal pain 121 (9) 66 (9) 0.9
  Anemia 70 (5) 43 (6) 0.5
  GI bleeding 237 (18) 127 (18) 0.8
  Rule out polyp 183 (14) 145 (21) <0.001
  Weight loss 44 (3) 32 (5) 0.2