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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 25.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Intern Med. 2004 May 24;164(10):1140–1147. doi: 10.1001/archinte.164.10.1140

Table 3.

Unadjusted Performance Measurements for Screening Mammography (N = 100 622)

Characteristic Rate (95% Confidence Interval)
Recall* Sensitivity (True-Positive Rate) Specificity (1 - False-Positive Rate)
Total 11.9 (11.7–12.1) 86.0 (83.3–88.5) 88.6 (88.4–88.8)
Body mass index category
 Underweight or normal weight 11.5 (11.2–11.8) 84.6 (79.8–88.6) 89.0 (88.7–89.3)
 Overweight 12.2 (11.9–12.6) 85.9 (80.7–90.2) 88.3 (88.0–88.7)
 Obesity class I 12.3 (11.8–12.8) 86.2 (78.6–91.9) 88.3 (87.8–88.8)
 Obesity classes II-III 12.1 (11.5–12.7) 91.3 (82.8–96.4) 88.5 (87.9–89.0)
Age, y
 40–44 13.3 (12.7–13.9) 87.5 (73.2–95.8) 86.9 (86.4–87.5)
 45–49 13.4 (12.8–13.9) 76.8 (65.1–86.1) 86.9 (86.4–87.5)
 50–54 12.8 (12.3–13.3) 83.5 (74.9–90.1) 87.6 (87.1–88.1)
 55–59 12.0 (11.4–12.6) 82.6 (73.3–89.7) 88.6 (88.0–89.1)
 60–64 11.3 (10.7–11.9) 90.2 (82.2–95.4) 89.5 (88.8–90.1)
 65–69 11.2 (10.6–11.9) 87.5 (78.7–93.6) 89.5 (88.9–90.1)
 70–74 9.8 (9.2–10.4) 89.4 (81.3–94.8) 91.1 (90.5–91.7)
 ≥75 9.9 (9.4–10.5) 88.7 (81.8–93.7) 90.9 (90.4–91.4)
Breast density
 Almost entirely fat 6.1 (5.6–6.6) 96.6 (82.2–99.9) 94.2 (93.7–94.7)
 Scattered fibroglandular tissue 10.5 (10.2–10.8) 91.3 (87.3–94.3) 90.0 (89.7–90.3)
 Heterogeneously dense 13.9 (13.5–14.2) 83.4 (78.6–87.5) 86.7 (86.3–87.0)
 Extremely dense 14.1 (13.5–14.7) 75.8 (66.1–83.8) 86.5 (85.8–87.1)
*

Recall rate was defined as the number of examination results interpreted as positive divided by the total number of examinations.