Table 1.

Diagnosis, demographic, hormonal exposure, and clinical factors of Arab American and Non-Hispanic White women diagnosed with thyroid cancer

	ArA N = 30	NHW N = 70	P-value
Diagnosis
Age at diagnosis	42.73 ± 15.14	45.94 ± 13.53	0.3495
Demographics
Birth country			0.0001
US	5 (19)	66 (97)
Outside US	22 (78)	2 (3)
Years lived in US among immigrants	21.50 ± 11.10	22.33 ± 25.10	0.9176
Marital status			0.1234
Married	19 (70)	52 (76)
Widowed	4 (15)	5 (7)
Other	4 (15)	11 (17)
Education			0.0069
Less than high school	7 (27)	4 (6)
High school graduate	9 (34)	17 (26)
Some college	8 (31)	21 (31)
College graduate	2 (8)	25 (37)
Household income			0.0003
$0–30,000	6 (22)	13 (19)
$30,000–45,000	5 (19)	4 (6)
$45,000–60,000	2 (7)	3 (4)
>$60,000	2 (7)	32 (47)
Refused	12 (44)	16 (24)
Household size			0.0088
1 person	1 (4)	9 (13)
2 people	4 (15)	21 (31)
3 people	5 (19)	11 (16)
4 people	6 (22)	20 (29)
>4 people	11 (41)	6 (9)
Health insurance	25 (93)	65 (96)	0.5553
Religion			0.0001
Christianity	12 (44)	62 (91)
Islam	15 (56)	1 (2)
Other	0	5 (7)
County at diagnosis			0.1113
Macomb	5 (17)	22 (32)
Oakland	7 (24)	22 (32)
Wayne	17 (59)	25 (36)
Clinical factors
Histology group			0.5528
Papillary	29 (97)	64 (92)
Follicular	1 (3)	4 (6)
Medullary	0	2 (3)
Stage			0.8033
Local	25 (83)	55 (79)
Regional	5 (17)	13 (18)
Distant/unknown	0	2 (3)
BMI (26, 66)	26.46 ± 5.09	29.0 ± 7.68	0.0683

Total responses for categorical variables are indicated in small print for both ethnic groups next to variable headings. Numbers in parentheses are percentages. Level of significance is P < 0.05 for two-tailed test