Physical activity reduces risk for colon polyps in a multiethnic colorectal cancer screening population

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Table 3 Analysis of Exercise and Polyp Prevalence with Ethnicity Subsets

Colonoscopy Finding	Sedentary	Active	P value
Colonoscopy Finding	N = 434	N = 548	P value
Any polyp
Ethnicity
Hispanic, n (%)	76 (17.5)	77 (14.1)	0.059
Black, n (%)	23 (5.3)	23 (4.2)	0.165
Asian, n (%)	35 (8.1)	22 (4.0)	0.188
White, n (%)	4 (0.9)	6 (1.1)	0.772
Any adenoma
Ethnicity
Hispanic, n (%)	48 (11.1)	34 (6.2)	0.002
Black, n (%)	14 (3.2)	17 (3.1)	0.618
Asian, n (%)	14 (3.2)	16 (2.9)	0.323
White, n (%)	2 (0.5)	3 (0.5)	0.942
Advanced adenoma
Ethnicity
Hispanic, n (%)	13 (3.0)	12 (2.2)	0.295
Black, n (%)	8 (1.8)	2 (0.4)	0.010
Asian, n (%)	0	2 (0.4)	0.116
White, n (%)	2 (0.5)	1 (0.2)	0.366

Note. Categorical variables were analyzed with Chi-Square test or the Fisher exact test (for sample sizes of n < 5 responses).

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