The Impact of Sedation on Adenoma Detection Rate and Cecal Intubation Rate in Colonoscopy

Table 1

Patients’ features with or without sedation ().

Characteristics	Colonoscopy		value
	With sedation ()	Without sedation ()
Patient age			<0.001
Mean (SD)
Patient gender			<0.001
Male	26,023 (50.0%)	6,084 (53.3%)
Female	25,977 (50.0%)	5,333 (46.7%)
Bowel preparation			<0.001
Good	50,151 (96.4%)	11,138 (97.6%)
Not good	1,849 (3.6%)	279 (2.4%)
Adenoma detection rate	11,687 (22.5%)	1,940 (17.0%)	<0.001
Cecal intubation rate	49,239 (94.7%)	10,415 (91.2%)	<0.001

SD: standard deviation.