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. 2019 Oct 1;7(10):E1207–E1213. doi: 10.1055/a-0982-3111

Table 1. Patient characteristics.

BLI (n = 92) WLI (n = 90) P
Mean age in years (SD) 62.5 (7.9) 63.2 (8.9) 0.609
Male (%) 56 (60.9 %) 47 (52.2 %) 0.239
Indications (%): 0.986

  • Cancer screening

 31 (33.7 %) 31 (34.4 %)

  • Bowel symptoms

 48 (52.2 %) 47 (52.2 %)

  • Polyp surveillance

 13 (14.1 %) 12 (13.3 %)
Complete colonoscopy (%) 92 (100 %) 90 (100 %)
Total Boston Bowel Preparation Score (%) 0.683

  • 5

  0  1 (1.1 %)

  • 6

 62 (67.4 %) 58 (64.4 %)

  • 7

  3 (3.3 %)  1 (1.1 %)

  • 8

  5 (5.4 %)  6 (6.7 %)

  • 9

 22 (23.9 %) 24 (26.7 %)
Minimum withdrawal time of 6 minutes 1 (%) 92 (100 %) 90 (100 %)

BLI, blue laser imaging ; WLI, white-light imaging.

1

We did not present mean withdrawal time because additional time needed for lesion characterization would lengthen calculation of withdrawal time.