{"id":6978,"date":"2020-06-19T10:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2020-06-19T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T14:30:41","slug":"quickstats-reason-for-the-most-recent-colonoscopy-among-adults-aged-50-75-years-who-had-a-test-in-the-past-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/06\/19\/6978\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Reason for the Most Recent Colonoscopy Among Adults Aged 50\u201375 Years Who Had a Test in the Past 10 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6924a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6924a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, 60.6% of U.S. adults aged 50\u201375 years without a personal history of colorectal cancer had a colonoscopy in the past 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Of these, 81.2% had their most recent colonoscopy as part of routine screening, 10.6% had their most recent colonoscopy because of a problem, 5.2% as a follow-up to an earlier test or screening exam, and 2.8% for some other reason.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6924a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6924a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, 60.6% of U.S. adults aged 50\u201375 years without a personal history of colorectal cancer had a colonoscopy in the past 10 years. Of these, 81.2% had their most recent colonoscopy as part of routine screening, 10.6% had their most recent colonoscopy because of a problem, 5.2% as a follow-up to an earlier test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60442,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}