{"id":12483,"date":"2022-08-29T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/?post_type=ec-news&#038;p=12483"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:00:15","slug":"colonoscopy-every-10-years-starting-at-age-40-modeled-as-cost-effective-for-men-with-body-mass-index-%e2%89%a535","status":"publish","type":"ec-news","link":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-every-10-years-starting-at-age-40-modeled-as-cost-effective-for-men-with-body-mass-index-%e2%89%a535\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonoscopy Every 10 Years Starting at Age 40 Modeled as Cost-Effective for Men With Body Mass Index \u226535"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Obesity is a known risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) in both men and women. A previously developed decision analytic was used to model the cost-effectiveness of performing colonoscopy every 5 or 10 years or fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening every year in overweight and obese individuals, beginning at age 40, 45, or 50 through age 75, with 100% adherence.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colonoscopy starting at age 45 or FIT starting at 40 was cost-effective using a threshold of $100,000 per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) gained for all body mass index (BMI) groups and both sexes. Colonoscopy every 10 years was always preferred over colonoscopy every 5 years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colonoscopy every 10 years starting at age 40 was cost-effective for men with BMI \u226535, with $93,300 per QALY for BMI 35 to &lt;40 and $80,400 per QALY for BMI \u226540.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity is a known risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC) in both men and women. A previously developed decision analytic was used to model the cost-effectiveness of performing colonoscopy every 5 or 10 years or fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening every year in overweight and obese individuals, beginning at age 40, 45, or 50 through &#8230; <a title=\"Colonoscopy Every 10 Years Starting at Age 40 Modeled as Cost-Effective for Men With Body Mass Index \u226535\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/ec-news\/colonoscopy-every-10-years-starting-at-age-40-modeled-as-cost-effective-for-men-with-body-mass-index-%e2%89%a535\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Colonoscopy Every 10 Years Starting at Age 40 Modeled as Cost-Effective for Men With Body Mass Index \u226535\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[1768,1769],"tags":[2913,2058,1343,3157,3410],"class_list":["post-12483","ec-news","type-ec-news","status-publish","hentry","category-asge-journal-scan","category-asge-kolon","tag-bmi","tag-colon-2","tag-crc","tag-qaly","tag-quality-adjusted-life-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news\/12483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ec-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ec-news"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endoscopy-campus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}