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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Detect Prev. 2007 Jul 19;31(3):199–206. doi: 10.1016/j.cdp.2007.04.002

Table 3.

Results of the multivariable logistic regression analysis predicting unstaged cancer, by cancer site

Cancer Patients
Odds ratio (95% Confidence Interval)

Breast Prostate Colorectal

Demographic Variables

Age:
  65-69 (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
  70-74 1.24 (0.79, 1.95) 1.44 b (1.13, 1.83) 0.96 (0.71, 1.30)
  75-79 1.68 a (1.09, 2.59) 1.71 c (1.34, 2.19) 1.04 (0.78, 1.39)
  80-84 2.41 c (1.57, 3.71) 3.11 c (2.40, 4.05) 1.05 (0.77, 1.42)
  85+ 4.39 c (2.91, 6.62) 4.61 c (3.48, 6.10) 2.15 c (1.62, 2.85)
Race:
  African-American 1.33 (0.86, 2.05) 1.12 (0.85, 1.48) 0.93 (0.66, 1.30)
  All Other (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
Sex:
  Male N/A N/A 0.96 (0.80, 1.14)
  Female (ref) 1.0 (Referent)

Socioeconomic Attributes:

Income:
  Quartile 1 (lowest) 0.96 (0.71, 1.29) 1.00 (0.81, 1.23) 1.14 (0.92, 1.41)
  Quartile 2-3 (IQR**) (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
  Quartile 4 (highest) 0.84 (0.62, 1.15) 0.97 (0.81, 1.17) 1.09 (0.87, 1.37)
Education attainment:
  Low (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
  High 0.88 (0.58, 1.33) 0.92 (0.69, 1.21) 0.97 (0.73, 1.30)

County of Residence:

  Appalachian / Rural 1.15 (0.87, 1.51) 1.12 (0.93, 1.35) 1.31 b (1.08, 1.60)
  Metro (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
  Suburban 0.87 (0.60, 1.25) 1.54 c (1.26, 1.89) 0.94 (0.73, 1.22)

Medicaid Status:

  Yes 1.75 c (1.25, 2.44) 1.27 (0.91, 1.77) 1.93 c (1.51, 2.46)
  No (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)

Complexity of Clinical Presentation and Health Care Needs:

  Low (ref) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent) 1.0 (Referent)
  Moderate 3.77 c (2.53, 5.61) 2.13 c (1.46, 3.10) 1.34 (0.92, 1.96)
  High 3.54 c (2.37, 5.28) 4.68 c (3.40, 6.45) 3.47 c (2.59, 4.65)

Level of statistical significance:

a

0.01 < p ≤ 0.05;

b

0.001 < p ≤ 0.01;

c

p ≤ 0.001.

All other statistics not significant at p < 0.05

**

IQR: Interquartile Range