ArticlePreventive medicine2015
Prevalence of colonoscopy before age 50.
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- Trends in and factors associated with family physician-performed screening colonoscopies in the United States: 2016-2021.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- ANALYSES OF PREVENTIVE CARE MEASURES WITH INCOMPLETE HISTORICAL DATA IN ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORDS: AN EXAMPLE FROM COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING.The annals of applied statistics · 2020Article
- Early-onset colorectal cancer: What reported statistics can and cannot tell us and their implications.Cancer · 2019Article
- Rectal cancer in the young: analysis of contributing factors and surgical outcomes.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2019Article
- Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer: Earlier Diagnoses or Increasing Disease Burden?Gastroenterology · 2017Article
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening Across Healthcare Systems.American journal of preventive medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveDescribe the prevalence of colonoscopy before age 50, when guidelines recommend initiation of colorectal cancer screening for average risk individuals.
methodWe assembled administrative health records that captured receipt of colonoscopy between 40 and 49-years of age for a cohort of 204,758 50-year-old members of four US health plans and used backward recurrence time models to estimate trends in receipt of colonoscopy before age 50 and variation in early colonoscopy by age and sex. We also used self-reported receipt of colonoscopy from 27,157 40- to 49-year-old respondents to the 2010 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to estimate the association between early colonoscopy and sex, race/ethnicity, and geographic location based on logistic regression models that accounted for the complex NHIS sampling design.
resultsAbout 5% of the health plan cohort had a record of colonoscopy before age 50. Receipt of early colonoscopy increased significantly from 1999 to 2010 (test for linear trend, p<0.0001), was more likely among women than men (RR=1.9, 95% CI 1.14-1.24) and in the east coast health plan compared to west coast and Hawaii plans. The NHIS analysis found that early colonoscopy was more likely in Northeastern residents compared to residents in the West (odds ratio=1.75, 95% CI 1.28-2.39).
conclusionColonoscopy before age 50 is increasingly common.
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