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Original Article Comparison of Oral Sulfate Solution and Polyethylene Glycol Plus Ascorbic Acid on the Efficacy of Bowel Preparation
Ji Hyung Nam,*orcid, Seok Bo Hong,*orcid, Yun Jeong Lim,, Seongju Leeorcid, Hyoun Woo Kangorcid, Jae Hak Kimorcid, Jin Ho Leeorcid
Clinical Endoscopy 2020;53(5):568-574.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5946/ce.2019.209
Published online: April 24, 2020

Department of Internal Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Korea

Correspondence: Yun Jeong Lim Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital, 27 Dongguk-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang 10326, Korea Tel: +82-31-961-7133, Fax: +82-31-961-9339, E-mail: drlimyj@gmail.com
*These authors contributed equally to this study.
• Received: November 5, 2019   • Revised: March 20, 2020   • Accepted: March 23, 2020

Copyright © 2020 Korean Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

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  • Background/Aims
    The quality of bowel preparation is one of the quality indicators for colonoscopy. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of oral sulfate solution (OSS) and polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid (PEG-AA) for bowel preparation.
  • Methods
    The study involved 167 patients who underwent diagnostic colonoscopies. Inadequate bowel preparation was defined as any score of ≤1 in each colon section based on the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale. Multivariate logistic regression was used to compare the efficacy of OSS and PEG-AA. Subgroup analyses were performed based on patient characteristics.
  • Results
    Overall, 106 (63.5%) patients received OSS, and 61 (36.5%) patients received PEG-AA. The rate of inadequate bowel preparation was 12.3% in patients receiving OSS and 32.8% in patients receiving PEG-AA (p=0.001). OSS (odds ratio [OR] = 0.26; p=0.003) and morning examination (OR=0.11; p=0.038) were significantly associated with efficient bowel preparation. The efficacy of OSS compared with PEG-AA was only significant in patients ≥50 years of age vs. <50 years of age (OR=0.13; p=0.001 vs. OR=0.96; p=0.959) and female vs. male patients (OR=0.06; p=0.002 vs. OR=0.58; p=0.339).
  • Conclusions
    OSS was significantly more efficient for bowel preparation than PEG-AA, especially in patients ≥50 years of age and female patients. Morning examination led to a good quality of bowel preparation, irrespective of the preparation regimen.
  • Keywords: Bowel preparation; Colonoscopy; Oral sulfate solution; Polyethylene glycol
Colonoscopy allows the early diagnosis for colorectal cancer (CRC), as well as the treatment of precancerous lesions, which can help prevent CRC [1,2]. Qualified colonoscopy is enabled by meticulous observation of the entire colonic mucosa, which is subject to adequate bowel preparation. Inadequate bowel preparation accounts for 25% of failed colonoscopies [3]. In addition to the cecal intubation rate and adenoma detection rate (ADR), the quality of bowel preparation is a known quality indicator for colonoscopy [4,5]. Inadequate bowel preparation can reduce the ADR, and increase procedure time and the resultant patient discomfort, the risk of complications, and the costs associated with shortened surveillance intervals [6-9].
The choice of an effective and tolerable preparation regimen is of utmost importance. Several Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved formulations for bowel cleansing are currently used, including polyethylene glycol (PEG)-electrolyte lavage solution, for example, 4 L PEG and 2 L PEG plus ascorbic acid (PEG-AA); oral sulfate solution (OSS); sodium picosulfate; and sodium phosphate in limited use [2,3,10]. These bowel preparation agents have been selected based on efficacy, safety, and tolerability. The standard volume (4 L) of PEG is safe and has been used as the most effective formulation, but there is low compliance because of the large intake volume [11]. Low-volume (2 L) PEG-AA is more tolerable than the standard volume PEG and has comparable safety [12,13]. The decreased volumes needed for OSS and sodium picosulfate (less than 1 L) have increased their popularity. Although these formulations are proven to be effective and safe, distinct features, such as taste, medication guides, and total dosage, can influence tolerability and compliance, depending on the characteristics of the individual. Concurrently, several randomized clinical trials have shown that OSS has comparable or better outcomes than PEG formulations and has acceptable safety [14-16]. Thus, this observational study aimed to compare the efficacy of OSS and PEG-AA and to identify the patient characteristics that were favorable to certain formulations.
Study design
This cross-sectional study was conducted on consecutive patients who underwent diagnostic colonoscopies at Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital between May 2016 and August 2016. The exclusion criteria were insufficient information about the bowel cleansing quality, therapeutic colonoscopy for alleged colorectal neoplasms, and previous history of colorectal resection. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (DUIH 2017-11-013-003).
All patients were examined by experienced endoscopists using a video colonoscope (Olympus CF-H260 or CF-Q260; Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). Intravenous midazolam was administered to the patients who wanted sedative endoscopies. The dose was determined according to a unified protocol based on the subject’s age and weight. Meperidine was applied routinely as an analgesic.
Bowel preparation
Bowel cleansing was achieved with either OSS (Innofree; MH Healthcare, Seoul, Korea) or PEG-AA (Coolprep; Taejoon Pharm. Co., Seoul, Korea). OSS contained 17.5 g sodium sulfate, 3.13 g potassium sulfate, 1.6 g magnesium sulfate, and flavoring agents in an aqueous liquid form supplied in a 177 mL bottle. The water was filled up to the 473 mL line marked on the bottle. The patients were instructed to take the diluted OSS with an additional 1 L of water at the first dose and to repeat the same preparation with the second dose. The OSS formulation was administered as a split-dose at 12-h intervals for all patients without exception (5 pm on the day before the colonoscopy and 5 am on the day of the procedure for morning colonoscopies; or 7 pm on the day before the colonoscopy and 7 am on the day of the procedure for afternoon colonoscopies). The PEG-AA contained 100 g PEG, 1 g potassium chloride, 2.69 g sodium chloride, 7.5 g sodium sulfate, 4.7 g ascorbic acid, and 5.9 g sodium ascorbate per liter. The patients were instructed to take 1 L PEG-AA solution with an additional 500 mL water at the first dose and to repeat the same preparation with the second dose. For the PEG-AA formulation, both split-dose and single-dose methods were available. For afternoon colonoscopies, 2 L PEG was taken on the day of the examination at 3-hour intervals (1 L each at 5 am and 8 am) for the single-dose method. For morning colonoscopies, 1 L was taken on the day before the examination (8 pm) and another 1 L was taken on the day of the procedure (5 am) in the split-dose method.
The quality of bowel cleansing was assessed by physicians blinded to the bowel preparation regimens using the Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) [7]. The BBPS assesses the cleanliness of the right colon (cecum and ascending colon), transverse colon (hepatic flexure, transverse, and splenic flexure), and left colon (descending, sigmoid colon, and rectum) (Table 1). Each colon section is individually rated with scores from 0 to 3, yielding total scores ranging from 0 (completely unprepared) to 9 (perfectly prepared). In the study, the quality of bowel preparation was considered adequate when all scores in each colon section were 2 or 3. If any of the colon sections scored 1 or 0, the preparation was considered inadequate (Fig. 1).
Statistical analyses
The main outcome was quality of bowel preparation (inadequate vs. adequate). Independent sample t-tests or chisquared tests were used to compare the baseline and clinical characteristics between the patients receiving OSS and PEG-AA. To determine the factors affecting the quality of the bowel preparations, logistic regression analyses were performed to determine adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). The multivariate regression model included age, sex, hospitalization (inpatient/outpatient), timing of the examination (morning/afternoon), and the bowel cleansing formulation (OSS vs. PEG-AA). In addition, we performed subgroup analyses to determine whether the efficacy of the formulations differed according to patient characteristics. All two-sided p-values less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant. SPSS Statistics 19.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) was used for computation of statistical analyses.
Baseline and clinical characteristics
Overall, 167 patients (51.5% male patients; mean age, 55.3±14.2 years of age, range, 17–82) were included in the study. The mean cecal intubation time (CIT) was 6.7±5.3 min and the ADR was 29.3%. In total, 106 (63.5%) patients received OSS and 61 (36.5%) patients received PEG-AA (Table 2). The mean age was different between the OSS group and the PEG-AA group (53.1 years of age vs. 59.1 years of age, p=0.008). There were significantly more inpatients in the PEG-AA group than in the OSS group (32.8% vs. 13.2%, p=0.002). Patients prepared by a split-dose accounted for 14.8% (9/61) of the patients in the PEG-AA group, whereas OSS was administered only as a split-dose. The mean CIT was longer in the PEG-AA group than in the OSS group (9.8 min vs. 4.9 min, p<0.001). Colonoscopy timing and ADR incidence were not different between the two groups.
The mean sum of the scores for BBPS (0–9) was 7.0±2.1, with 2.1±0.9 in the right colon, 2.5±0.7 in the transverse colon, and 2.4±0.7 in the left colon. The rate of inadequate bowel preparation was 19.8% (33/167): 12.3% in the OSS group and 32.8% in the PEG-AA group (p=0.001). The mean BBPS scores between the OSS group and PEG-AA group were significantly different for all colon sections: total (7.5 vs. 6.1, p<0.001), right (2.3 vs. 1.8, p<0.001), transverse (2.7 vs. 2.2, p=0.001), and left (2.6 vs. 2.0, respectively, p<0.001).
Factors related to bowel preparation quality
The factors that affected the quality of bowel cleansing are presented in Table 3. In multivariate logistic regression, the OSS regimen was negatively associated with inadequate bowel preparation compared with PEG-AA (OR=0.26; 95% CI, 0.11–0.63; p=0.003). Morning colonoscopies showed significantly better quality bowel preparation than afternoon examinations (OR=0.11; 95% CI, 0.01–0.89; p=0.038). Age, sex, and hospitalization did not affect the quality of bowel preparation. In the subgroup analyses, the OR for the efficacy of OSS vs. PEG-AA was 0.13 in patients of 50 years of age or older (p=0.001) and 0.96 in patients younger than 50 years of age (p=0.959) (Table 4). In addition, good OSS efficacy was more prominent in females than in males (OR=0.06; p=0.002 and OR=0.58; p=0.339, respectively). There was also a significant difference between outpatients (OR=0.30; p=0.013) and inpatients (OR=0.14; p=0.145).
OSS was significantly more efficient for bowel preparation than PEG-AA, especially for older patients and female patients. We used the BBPS to assess the bowel cleansing quality for each colon section. The OSS group showed better preparation quality compared to the PEG-AA group, regardless of the colon section. In a prospective study, the inadequate preparation group on the Aronchick scale [17] had a significantly higher rate of missed adenomas compared with the excellent preparation group (OR=3.04), whereas the ADR in the good or fair preparation groups did not differ from the excellent group [6]. In other words, “inadequate or not” is appropriate as a criterion for the quality of bowel cleansing. Meanwhile, as OSS was approved for a split-dose [15], OSS was prescribed only as a split-dose. Single-dose OSS has been associated with a higher incidence of gastrointestinal events, such as vomiting, compared with PEG-AA [15]. Therefore, the preparation timing (split-dose vs. single-dose) could not be assessed by our retrospective design.
The pharmacological effect of the preparation formulation itself, as well as the tolerability and compliance related to its dose, taste, and preparation timing, can affect the quality of the bowel preparation. In this study, the cleansing efficacy between OSS and PEG-AA was different in patients of 50 years of age or older, but was similar in those younger than 50 years of age. Similarly, the difference was only found in female patients, not in male patients. These results suggested that older patients and female patients are vulnerable to the relatively large volume of 2 L PEG compared with OSS and that this led to a difference in compliance between the two regimens. Consistent with our results, a recent Korean study reported that split-dose OSS was more acceptable to elderly patients than PEG [18]. Hospitalization influenced the efficacy of OSS vs. PEG-AA in the subgroup analysis; however, it was limited because the inpatient sample size was insufficient. Further large-scale studies are required to confirm the results. In addition, as various comorbidities, besides inpatient status, can affect the quality of bowel preparation [19,20], detailed information on individual comorbidities may be helpful for the selection of preparation regimens based on safety and tolerability.
Morning examinations were more efficient than afternoon examinations in this study, irrespective of the bowel preparation regimen. The result was plausible because the intervals between the preparation and examination were shorter in the morning colonoscopies than in the afternoon examinations in both preparation regimens. The timing of preparation may be important for the quality of bowel cleansing. Published guidelines recommend an interval of no more than 4 h from the final dose of bowel preparation formulation to the examination [10]. Previous studies showed that the preparation quality was significantly better in patients with a shorter interval between the bowel preparation and the start of the colonoscopy [21,22]. Other results showing that split-dose preparation was superior to day-before cleansing may have been caused by different time intervals between bowel cleansing and the examination [23-25]. In this study, it is possible that as all OSS regimens were prepared in a split-dose, this provided higher cleaning quality than PEG-AA, which was mainly prepared as a single-dose. The interval between the last dose of bowel preparation and the start time of colonoscopy would be helpful for the comparison. However, the individual data for the intervals were not available in our retrospective design.
Our study had several limitations. First, as this study was conducted in a single-center hospital, selection bias could not be excluded. Second, patient compliance with the preparation instructions and diet education can influence the quality of bowel cleansing. Even though we routinely provided direct education about the preparation methods to all patients scheduled for a colonoscopy, patient acceptance differs from person to person. In addition, high-residue diet, constipation, and high body mass index may be risk factors for inadequate bowel preparation [8,22,26,27] and possible confounders. Third, the choice of formulation is inevitably affected by the physician’s preference and the patient’s medical status. Patients’ underlying diseases may also affect the choice of preparation regimen and the cleaning quality of the regimen. Fourth, as we could not achieve a concordance among the physicians for the assessment of bowel preparations, the physician’s subjectivity may have influenced the quality assessment. However, this issue may have been mitigated by our use of a verified scoring system for bowel cleansing. Finally, the OSS regimen was all split-dose, whereas the PEG-AA was mostly single-dose. Thus, the scope for comparison may be limited. Further studies are needed to compare the two regimens when each are provided as split-dose.
This paper focused on the effectiveness of the formulation, not the safety. This study supports previous studies [13-15,28] that showed the non-inferiority of OSS compared with PEG-AA. Interestingly, OSS may be of benefit for older patients and female patients. A strength of this study was that the comparison of the preparation efficacy between the two regimens was stratified by patient characteristics, which indicated that the bowel cleansing regimen should be selected with consideration of the patient characteristics and their subsequent compliance.
Fig. 1.
Examples of unprepared and prepared colon segments (right, transverse, and left) in bowel cleansing with oral sulfate solution (OSS) and polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid (PEG-AA).
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Table 1.
Boston Bowel Preparation Scale
Score Definition
Section score for each colon section (right, transverse, and left colon)a) 0 Unprepared colon segment with mucosa not seen because of solid stool that cannot be cleared
1 Portion of mucosa of the colon segment seen, but other areas of the colon segment are not well seen because of staining, residual stool, and/or opaque liquid
2 Minor amount of residual staining, small fragments of stool, and/or opaque liquid, but mucosa of colon segment is seen well
3 Entire mucosa of colon segment seen well, with no residual staining, small fragments of stool, or opaque liquid
Sum of scores 0–9 From 0 (non-prepared colon) to 9 (perfectly clean colon)

a)Right, cecum to the ascending; transverse, hepatic to the splenic flexure; Left, descending to the rectum.

Table 2.
Baseline and Clinical Characteristics of the Patients
Total (n=167) OSS (n=106) PEG-AA (n=61) p-value
Age (yr), mean±SD 55.3±14.2 53.1±13.8 59.1±14.0 0.008
Male, n (%) 86 (51.5) 58 (54.7) 28 (45.9) 0.272
Hospitalization, n (%) 34 (20.4) 14 (13.2) 20 (32.8) 0.002
Morning colonoscopy, n (%) 25 (15.0) 16 (15.1) 9 (14.8) 0.953
Split-dose, n (%) 115 (68.9) 106 (100) 9 (14.8) <0.001
Inadequate bowel preparation 33 (19.8) 13 (12.3) 20 (32.8) 0.001
Cecal intubation time (min), mean±SD 6.7±5.3 4.9±3.9 9.8±6.0 <0.001
Adenoma detection rate, n (%) 49 (29.3) 30 (28.3) 19 (31.1) 0.697

OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid; SD, standard deviation.

Table 3.
Risk Factors for Inadequate Bowel Preparation
Variables Crude OR (95% CI) p-value Adjusted OR (95% CI) p-value
Age 1.01 (0.98–1.04) 0.403 0.99 (0.97–1.03) 0.842
Male sex 1.59 (0.73–3.44) 0.245 2.22 (0.95–5.21) 0.067
OSS (vs. PEG-AA) 0.29 (0.13–0.63) 0.002 0.26 (0.11–0.63) 0.003
Morning (vs. afternoon) 0.14 (0.19–1.10) 0.062 0.11 (0.01–0.89) 0.038
Inpatient (vs. outpatient) 1.64 (0.68–3.95) 0.274 1.36 (0.49–3.74) 0.558

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid.

Table 4.
Odds Ratios for Efficacy of Oral Sulfate Solution vs. Polyethylene Glycol Plus Ascorbic Acid in the Subgroups
Variables Subgroups n Inadequate preparation, n (%)
 OR (95% CI) p-value
OSS PEG-AA
Age <50 yr 57 7/40 (17.5) 2/17 (11.8) 0.96 (0.16–5.70) 0.959
≥50 yr 110 6/66 (9.1) 18/44 (40.9) 0.13 (0.04–0.41) 0.001
Sex Male 86 11/58 (19.0) 9/28 (32.1) 0.58 (0.19–1.79) 0.339
Female 81 2/48 (4.2) 11/33 (33.3) 0.06 (0.01–0.34) 0.002
Colonoscopy timing Morning 25 0/16 (0) 1/9 (11.1) N/A
Afternoon 142 13/90 (14.4) 19/52 (36.5) 0.28 (0.11–0.70) 0.006
Hospitalization Outpatient 133 12/92 (13.0) 12/41 (29.3) 0.30 (0.11–0.77) 0.013
Inpatient 34 1/14 (7.1) 8/20 (40.0) 0.14 (0.01–1.97) 0.145

Other covariates (age, sex, timing, hospitalization) were adjusted for all regressions.

CI, confidence interval; N/A, not available; OR, odds ratio; OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid.

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    Comparison of Oral Sulfate Solution and Polyethylene Glycol Plus Ascorbic Acid on the Efficacy of Bowel Preparation
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    Fig. 1. Examples of unprepared and prepared colon segments (right, transverse, and left) in bowel cleansing with oral sulfate solution (OSS) and polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid (PEG-AA).

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    Comparison of Oral Sulfate Solution and Polyethylene Glycol Plus Ascorbic Acid on the Efficacy of Bowel Preparation
    Score Definition
    Section score for each colon section (right, transverse, and left colon)a) 0 Unprepared colon segment with mucosa not seen because of solid stool that cannot be cleared
    1 Portion of mucosa of the colon segment seen, but other areas of the colon segment are not well seen because of staining, residual stool, and/or opaque liquid
    2 Minor amount of residual staining, small fragments of stool, and/or opaque liquid, but mucosa of colon segment is seen well
    3 Entire mucosa of colon segment seen well, with no residual staining, small fragments of stool, or opaque liquid
    Sum of scores 0–9 From 0 (non-prepared colon) to 9 (perfectly clean colon)
    Total (n=167) OSS (n=106) PEG-AA (n=61) p-value
    Age (yr), mean±SD 55.3±14.2 53.1±13.8 59.1±14.0 0.008
    Male, n (%) 86 (51.5) 58 (54.7) 28 (45.9) 0.272
    Hospitalization, n (%) 34 (20.4) 14 (13.2) 20 (32.8) 0.002
    Morning colonoscopy, n (%) 25 (15.0) 16 (15.1) 9 (14.8) 0.953
    Split-dose, n (%) 115 (68.9) 106 (100) 9 (14.8) <0.001
    Inadequate bowel preparation 33 (19.8) 13 (12.3) 20 (32.8) 0.001
    Cecal intubation time (min), mean±SD 6.7±5.3 4.9±3.9 9.8±6.0 <0.001
    Adenoma detection rate, n (%) 49 (29.3) 30 (28.3) 19 (31.1) 0.697
    Variables Crude OR (95% CI) p-value Adjusted OR (95% CI) p-value
    Age 1.01 (0.98–1.04) 0.403 0.99 (0.97–1.03) 0.842
    Male sex 1.59 (0.73–3.44) 0.245 2.22 (0.95–5.21) 0.067
    OSS (vs. PEG-AA) 0.29 (0.13–0.63) 0.002 0.26 (0.11–0.63) 0.003
    Morning (vs. afternoon) 0.14 (0.19–1.10) 0.062 0.11 (0.01–0.89) 0.038
    Inpatient (vs. outpatient) 1.64 (0.68–3.95) 0.274 1.36 (0.49–3.74) 0.558
    Variables Subgroups n Inadequate preparation, n (%)
    		 OR (95% CI) p-value
    OSS PEG-AA
    Age <50 yr 57 7/40 (17.5) 2/17 (11.8) 0.96 (0.16–5.70) 0.959
    ≥50 yr 110 6/66 (9.1) 18/44 (40.9) 0.13 (0.04–0.41) 0.001
    Sex Male 86 11/58 (19.0) 9/28 (32.1) 0.58 (0.19–1.79) 0.339
    Female 81 2/48 (4.2) 11/33 (33.3) 0.06 (0.01–0.34) 0.002
    Colonoscopy timing Morning 25 0/16 (0) 1/9 (11.1) N/A
    Afternoon 142 13/90 (14.4) 19/52 (36.5) 0.28 (0.11–0.70) 0.006
    Hospitalization Outpatient 133 12/92 (13.0) 12/41 (29.3) 0.30 (0.11–0.77) 0.013
    Inpatient 34 1/14 (7.1) 8/20 (40.0) 0.14 (0.01–1.97) 0.145
    Table 1. Boston Bowel Preparation Scale

    Right, cecum to the ascending; transverse, hepatic to the splenic flexure; Left, descending to the rectum.

    Table 2. Baseline and Clinical Characteristics of the Patients

    OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid; SD, standard deviation.

    Table 3. Risk Factors for Inadequate Bowel Preparation

    CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio; OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid.

    Table 4. Odds Ratios for Efficacy of Oral Sulfate Solution vs. Polyethylene Glycol Plus Ascorbic Acid in the Subgroups

    Other covariates (age, sex, timing, hospitalization) were adjusted for all regressions.

    CI, confidence interval; N/A, not available; OR, odds ratio; OSS, oral sulfate solution; PEG-AA, polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid.

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