Table 2.

Bivariate Associations between Diabetes Status* and Screening Examinations, Kentucky Residents, 2008

Frequency†Percent ScreenedP (χ2)
Women, age ≥23 years
    Papanicolaou test within 2 years
        With diabetes5766.7.06
        Without diabetes37478.1
    Papanicolaou test within 3 years
        With diabetes5770.2.0007
        Without diabetes37484.3
Women, age ≥42 years
    Regular mammography
        With diabetes8968.5.006
        Without diabetes40181.6
    Mammography within 2 years
        With diabetes9466.0
        Without diabetes42376.8.03
Men and women, age ≥52 years
    FOBT within 2 years
        With diabetes12924.8.25
        Without diabetes46720.1
    Colonoscopy/ sigmoidoscopy within 10 years
        With Diabetes13063.1.72
        Without Diabetes46661.4

  • Bold values indicate P≤ .05.

  • ↵* Patients with diabetes are subjects who have ever been told that they had diabetes by a health professional. Patients without diabetes are subjects who have not ever been told by a health professional that they had diabetes.

  • ↵† Frequency differs across strata because of age and sex eligibility and missing data.

  • FOBT, fecal occult blood test.