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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2007 Oct 5;111(2):289–296. doi: 10.1007/s10549-007-9775-5

Table 2.

Characteristics of BBD women according to risk level

All women (n = 4341) Risk 1 (n = 1659) Risk 2 (n = 2442) Risk 3 (n = 240)
Risk categories (%) 100 38.2 56.3 5.5
Ethnicity - no. of women (%)
 African American 1208 (27.8) 461 (27.8) 699 (28.6) 48 (20.0)
 Caucasian 3133 (72.2) 1198 (72.2) 1743 (71.4) 192 (80.0)
Age - no. of women (%)
 ≤45 years 2235 (51.5) 965 (58.2) 1208 (49.5) 62 (25.8)
 46–55 years 952 (21.9) 272 (16.4) 602 (24.7) 78 (32.5)
 >55 years 1154 (26.6) 422 (25.4) 632 (25.9) 100 (41.7)
Age - mean (SD) 46.6 (14.3) 44.7 (15.5) 47.1 (13.3) 54.1 (12.2)
HBBD-number of specimens (%) 2979 (68.6) 749 (45.1) 2006 (82.1) 224 (93.3)
Lesion Number - mean (SD) 2.81 (1.73) 1.66 (0.86) 3.45 (1.72) 4.26 (1.87)