Breast and bowel cancer screening uptake patterns over 15 years for UK south Asian ethnic minority populations, corrected for differences in socio-demographic characteristics

Table 3 Multivariate analysis: breast and bowel screening uptakes by ethnic subgroup

Cancer screening Programme/Round	Ethnic Group	Number	Uptake (%)	Adjusted OR◆ (95% CI)
	Hindu-Gujarati	477	67.71	0.93⁺ (0.75, 1.15)
	Hindu Other	241	59.75	0.60** (0.45, 0.79)
Breast screening	Muslim	567	51.32	0.49** (0.41, 0.58)
Round 1: 1989–92	Sikh	1245	63.37	0.67** (0.59, 0.76)
	Non-Asian	59362	75.35	1 (-)
	Hindu-Gujarati	522	69.73	0.86⁺ (0.71, 1.05)
	Hindu Other	247	67.21	0.67** (0.51, 0.89)
Breast screening	Muslim	582	53.26	0.46** (0.39, 0.54)
Round 2: 1992–95	Sikh	1313	67.56	0.69** (0.61, 0.78)
	Non-Asian	60127	77.38	1 (-)
	Hindu-Gujarati	758	75.86	1.13⁺ (0.95, 1.34)
	Hindu Other	428	68.93	0.68** (0.56, 0.84)
Breast screening	Muslim	912	51.75	0.40** (0.35, 0.46)
Round 5: 2001–04	Sikh	2067	70.59	0.79** (0.72, 0.88)
	Non-Asian	82046	78.05	1 (-)
	Hindu-Gujarati	1389	40.03	0.50** (0.45, 0.56)
	Hindu-Other	681	34.51	0.38** (0.32, 0.44)
Bowel screening	Muslim	1595	26.14	0.30** (0.27, 0.34)
Round 1: 2000–02	Sikh	3012	32.47	0.36** (0.33, 0.39)
	Non-Asian	116572	61.30	1 (-)
	Hindu-Gujarati	1478	37.01	0.55** (0.50, 0.62)
	Hindu-Other	757	33.16	0.44** (0.38, 0.52)
Bowel screening	Muslim	1807	21.47	0.29** (0.26, 0.33)
Round 2: 2003–05	Sikh	3378	29.66	0.39** (0.36, 0.42)
	Non-Asian	109239	55.83	1 (-)

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