Table 2.
Patient characteristics per feature
| Anaemia (n=1268) |
Rectal bleeding (n=13 067) |
Dysphagia (n=8197) |
Breast lump (n=16 118) |
Haematuria (n=6529) |
Post-menopausal bleeding (n=3536) |
Total (n=48 715) | |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Age | |||||||
| 18 to 24 years | – | – | 191 (2.3%) | – | – | – | 191 (0.4%) |
| 25 to 34 years | – | – | 404 (4.9%) | 1825 (11.3%) | – | – | 2229 (4.6%) |
| 35 to 44 years | – | – | 733 (8.9%) | 4798 (29.8%) | – | – | 5531 (11.4%) |
| 45 to 54 years | – | 2355 (18.0%) | 1308 (16.0%) | 5072 (31.5%) | 1107 (17.0%) | 1010 (28.6%) | 10 852 (22.3%) |
| 55 to 64 years | 103 (8.1%) | 3815 (29.2%) | 1521 (18.6%) | 1883 (11.7%) | 1305 (20.0%) | 1463 (41.4%) | 10 090 (20.7%) |
| 65 to 74 years | 350 (27.6%) | 3509 (26.9%) | 1660 (20.3%) | 1432 (8.9%) | 1826 (28.0%) | 658 (18.6%) | 9435 (19.4%) |
| 75 to 84 years | 481 (37.9%) | 2468 (18.9%) | 1513 (18.5%) | 791 (4.9%) | 1629 (25.0%) | 313 (8.9%) | 7195 (14.8%) |
| 85 or older | 334 (26.3%) | 920 (7.0%) | 867 (10.6%) | 317 (2.0%) | 662 (10.1%) | 92 (2.6%) | 3192(6.6%) |
| Gender (female) | 709 (55.9%) | 6547 (50.1%) | 4519 (55.1%) | 16 118 (100%) | 2223 (34.1%) | 3536 (100%) | 33 652 (69.1%) |
| IMD | |||||||
| 1 (least deprived) | 249 (19.6) | 3475 (26.6%) | 1864 (22.7%) | 4368 (27.1%) | 1715 (26.3%) | 1001 (28.3%) | 12 672 (26.0%) |
| 2 | 276 (21.8%) | 2996 (22.9%) | 1727 (21.1%) | 3491 (21.7%) | 1548 (23.7%) | 795 (22.5%) | 10 833 (22.2%) |
| 3 | 277 (21.9%) | 2733 (20.9%) | 1786 (21.8%) | 3284 (20.4%) | 1390 (21.3%) | 718 (20.3%) | 10 188 (20.9%) |
| 4 | 272 (21.5%) | 2193 (16.8%) | 1524 (18.6%) | 2737 (17.0%) | 1086 (16.6%) | 529 (15.0%) | 8341 (17.1%) |
| 5 (most deprived) | 192 (15.1%) | 1664 (12.7%) | 1294 (15.8%) | 2232 (13.9%) | 789 (12.1%) | 492 (13.9%) | 6663 (13.7%) |
| Ethnicity | |||||||
| White | 796 (62.8%) | 6392 (48.9%) | 3980 (48.6%) | 10 535 (65.4%) | 4130 (63.3%) | 2249 (63.6%) | 28 082 (57.7%) |
| Black | 13 (1.0%) | 116 (0.9%) | 54 (0.7%) | 254 (1.6%) | 58 (0.9%) | 61 (1.7%) | 556 (1.1%) |
| Asian | 31 (2.4%) | 222 (1.7%) | 182 (2.2%) | 364 (2.3%) | 93 (1.4%) | 95 (2.7%) | 987 (2.0%) |
| Mixed | 3 (0.2%) | 28 (0.2%) | 24 (0.3%) | 112 (0.7%) | 14 (0.2%) | 12 (0.3%) | 193 (0.4%) |
| Other | 12 (1.0%) | 78 (0.6%) | 58 (0.7%) | 184 (1.1%) | 38 (0.6%) | 43 (1.2%) | 413 (0.9%) |
| Comorbidities | |||||||
| 0 | 76 (6.0%) | 2164 (16.6%) | 1355 (16.5%) | 4668 (29.0%) | 927 (14.2%) | 588 (16.6%) | 9778 (20.1%) |
| 1 | 175 (13.8%) | 2991 (22.9%) | 1690 (20.6%) | 4174 (25.9%) | 1332 (20.4%) | 923 (26.1%) | 11 285 (23.2%) |
| 2 | 258 (20.4%) | 2965 (22.7%) | 1765 (21.5%) | 3598 (22.3%) | 1479 (22.7%) | 808 (22.9%) | 10 873 (22.3%) |
| 3 | 265 (20.9%) | 2220 (17.0%) | 1364 (16.6%) | 2170 (13.5%) | 1249 (19.1%) | 629 (17.8%) | 7897 (16.2%) |
| ≥4 | 494 (39.0%) | 2727 (20.9%) | 2023 (24.7%) | 1508 (9.4%) | 1542 (23.6%) | 588 (16.6%) | 8882 (18.2%) |
This table was created by the authors.
IMD, Index of Multiple Deprivation.