Increasing uptake of colorectal cancer screening in Korea: a population-based study

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Colorectal cancer screening rates in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008.

	FOBT within previous year		Endoscopy^a within previous 10 years		Any test^b within recommended time interval
	Percent	OR (95% CI)^c	Percent	OR (95% CI)^c	Percent	OR (95% CI)^c
2005	7.2	1.00 (referent)	18.0	1.00 (referent)	22.9	1.00 (referent)
2006	13.1	2.15 (1.57-2.96)	16.5	0.94 (0.74-1.19)	26.8	1.32 (1.07-1.64)
2007	17.5	3.03 (2.23-4.12)	18.0	1.06 (0.83-1.34)	29.0	1.46 (1.18-1.80)
2008	21.3	3.68 (2.72-4.97)	20.5	1.21 (0.96-1.53)	36.6	2.02 (1.64-2.48)
P _trend ^d		<0.001		0.060		<0.001

^a Flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy.
^b Includes FOBT test within the past one year, endoscopy test within the past 10 years, or DCBE test within the past 5 years. The number screened does not equal the sum of participants because people may have had more than one test.
^c Age and gender adjusted logistic regression models for each outcome were estimated.
^d p-value for trend calculated using continuous values.

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