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. 2022 Jun 7;20:205. doi: 10.1186/s12916-022-02375-4

Table 5.

Association of participant characteristics and performance of risk management behavior(s)a post-disclosure in participants identified via MyCode

Variable Participants identified via MyCode
(n=65)
Post-disclosure risk management behavior (n=36) No post-disclosure risk management behavior (n=29) Odds ratio (95% confidence interval), p-value
Female sex 43/65 (66.2%) 27/36 (75%) 16/29 (55.2%) 0.71 (0.52–2.01), 0.09
Median age at result return — years (IQR) 56.2 (30.2) 57.2 (29.0) 55.4 (28.9) 1.3 (0.18–8.15), 0.68
Median time since results — years (IQR) 0.7 (2.2) 1.1 (2.2) 0.7 (1.4) 6.2 (0.96–40.1), 0.38
Personal history 5/65 (7.7%) 4/36 (11.1%) 1/29 (3.4%) 1.76 (0.31–9.86), 0.25
Self-reported family history 16/65 (24.6%) 12/36 (33.3%) 4/29 (13.7%) 3.83 (0.97–15.2), 0.038
Genetics follow-up 35/65 (53.8%) 29/36 (80.6%) 6/29 (20.7%) 9.7 (3.02–30.9), <0.0001*
Specialist follow-up 27/65 (41.5%) 26/36 (72.2%) 1/29 (3.4%) 50 (6.1–411.1), <0.0001*
PCP follow-up 20/65 (30.8%) 15/36 (41.7%) 5/29 (17.2%) 5.9 (1.5–23.1), 0.0339

aPotential risk management behaviors are noted in Table 1. *denotes statistical significance