Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of 387,504 observations on 327,144 women from July 2001 to December 2002 and level of average potential exposure to newspaper articles with iInformation about the harmful effects of HT in July 2002

	Women		Average potential exposure during July 2002 (number of articles)
			<1.00	1.00–1.99	2.00–2.99	3.00+
	N	(Column %)	Row %
Total observations	327,144		54.8	17.4	15.0	12.8
Use of hormone therapy at baselinea:
No	71,270	56.2	56.3	16.7	15.0	12.0
Yes	55,523	43.8	54.0	18.8	14.7	12.5
Age (years)
50–54	103,941	31.8	52.7	18.2	15.6	13.5
55–59	77,893	23.8	54.0	17.7	14.9	13.5
60–64	57,352	17.5	56.5	16.7	14.5	12.3
65–69	47,365	14.5	57.6	16.5	14.3	11.5
70–74	40,593	12.4	56.1	17.0	15.0	11.9
Race/ethnicity
White, non Hispanic	243,558	77.6	56.1	18.7	136	11.6
Black, non Hispanic	20,378	6.5	63.0	12.7	14.5	9.8
Asian/Hawaiian/Pacific Islander	16,845	5.4	11.4	4.8	36.7	47.1
Other/Mixed (2+ races)	6,407	2.0	60.8	13.2	12.0	14.0
Hispanic	26,797	8.5	69.1	10.1	13.7	7.0
1st degree family history of breast cancer*
No	264,097	86.0	55.3	17.3	15.0	12.5
Yes	43,097	14.0	54.0	18.5	13.3	14.1
Education*
<High school graduate	27,232	10.4	64.0	10.7	14.7	10.6
High school graduate	72,295	27.6	63.9	16.7	11.5	7.9
Some college or technical school	71,491	27.3	50.4	18.6	15.9	15.1
College graduate or postgraduate	90,721	34.7	42.5	16.4	17.7	23.4
Site*
North Carolina			65.7	15.9	14.6	3.8
New Hampshire			44.8	40.2	12.3	2.6
Vermont			95.5	4.3	0.2	0.0
San Francisco			3.3	1.9	39.1	55.6
Western Washington			30.1	12.5	11.3	46.1
New Mexico			88.3	8.6	3.1	0.0
Denver			7.8	58.2	33.2	0.8

Characteristics of the women at the time of the first observation. Data were missing for: education (n = 13,159), family history (19,950), and education (65,405).

^aBaseline period refers to July–December 2001.

*p < .001 for chi-square comparing level of average potential exposure across subgroups of women in each category.