Table 1.
Characteristics of Women by Hysterectomy Status and by Age, National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (2010)a
| Characteristic | Women 30 Years and Older | Women 65 Years and Older, No. (% [95% CI]) (n = 2581) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reporting No Hysterectomy, No. (% [95% CI]) (n = 7216) |
Reporting Hysterectomy (n = 2278) |
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| No. (% [95% CI]) | Mean, y | ||||
| Age at Hysterectomy |
Time Since Hysterectomy |
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| All women | … | … | 41.3 | 20.2 | … |
| Age, y | |||||
| 30–44 | 2748 (38.1 [36.8–39.5]) | 156 (7.3 [6.1–8.7]) | 33.9 | 5.9 | … |
| 45–64 | 2960 (43.7 [42.3–45.0]) | 1049 (49.6 [47.2–52.1]) | 40.0 | 15.7 | … |
| ≥65 | 1508 (18.2 [17.2–19.3]) | 1073 (43.1 [40.7–45.5]) | 44.2 | 29.9 | … |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 4214 (70.3 [69.0–71.6]) | 1502 (75.1 [73.1–77.1]) | 41.4 | 22.0 | 1848 (81.0 [79.2–82.7]) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 1149 (11.2 [10.3–12.1]) | 439 (13.6 [12.1–15.4]) | 39.7 | 19.0 | 369 (8.9 [7.7–10.2]) |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1346 (12.5 [11.6–13.4]) | 258 (8.0 [6.9–9.4]) | 41.8 | 15.5 | 255 (6.6 [5.7–7.7]) |
| Other | 507 (6.0 [5.3–6.7]) | 79 (3.2 [2.5–4.1]) | 42.7 | 17.1 | 109 (3.5 [2.8–4.4]) |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 1122 (12.2 [11.3–13.2]) | 430 (15.4 [13.7–17.2]) | 40.7 | 24.9 | 611 (20.0 [18.3–21.9]) |
| High school graduate or GED | 1785 (24.5 [23.2–25.7]) | 753 (35.4 [33.1–37.8]) | 41.0 | 21.2 | 853 (33.8 [31.8–35.9]) |
| Some college | 2105 (29.8 [28.6–31.1]) | 703 (31.1 [29.0–33.3]) | 40.4 | 20.2 | 663 (27.1 [25.2–29.1]) |
| College graduate | 2188 (33.5 [31.9–35.1]) | 384 (18.2 [16.2–20.3]) | 43.6 | 18.1 | 440 (19.0 [17.1–21.1]) |
| Missing | 16 | 8 | … | … | 14 |
| Proportion of poverty level, % | |||||
| <200 | 3230 (36.8 [35.3–38.4]) | 1126 (41.8 [39.5–44.2]) | 40.5 | 23.1 | 1418 (47.9 [45.5–50.3]) |
| 200 to <400 | 1465 (21.4 [20.3–22.6]) | 494 (22.8 [21.0–24.8]) | 41.7 | 21.5 | 551 (23.5 [21.4–25.7]) |
| ≥400 | 2519 (41.8 [40.1–43.4]) | 658 (35.3 [32.9–37.8]) | 41.9 | 18.1 | 612 (28.6 [26.3–31.1]) |
| Missing | 2 | … | … | … | … |
| Health care coverageb | |||||
| Private only | 2003 (30.2 [28.7–31.7]) | 434 (22.2 [20.1–24.4]) | 39.8 | 14.2 | c |
| Public only | 1491 (16.3 [15.3–17.4]) | 695 (25.5 [23.5–27.5]) | 41.5 | 26.3 | 1209 (42.9 [40.5–45.4]) |
| Public and private | 2639 (40.0 [38.5–41.6]) | 955 (44.6 [42.1–47.0]) | 42.6 | 22.2 | 1315 (54.9 [52.4–57.4]) |
| None | 1069 (13.4 [12.4–14.5]) | 189 (7.8 [6.6–9.2]) | 37.1 | 15.8 | c |
| Missing | 14 | 5 | … | … | 57 |
| Has a usual source of health care | |||||
| Yes | 6428 (90.2 [89.4–91.0]) | 2161 (95.2 [94.0–96.1]) | 41.5 | 21.0 | 2504 (97.5 [96.8–98.1]) |
| No | 788 (9.8 [9.0–10.6]) | 116 (4.8 [3.9–6.0]) | 37.5 | 19.0 | 76 (2.5 [1.9–3.2]) |
| Missing | 0 | 1 | … | … | 1 |
| Ever heard of HPV | |||||
| Yes | 4141 (75.4 [74.0–76.8]) | 830 (73.1 [70.1–75.9]) | 39.5 | 13.9 | d |
| No | 1554 (24.6 [23.2–26.0]) | 371 (26.9 [24.1–29.9]) | 38.3 | 16.1 | d |
| Missing | 1521 | 1077 | … | … | … |
| Time since most recent Papanicolaou test, ye | |||||
| <1 | 3790 (54.4 [52.9–55.9]) | 724 (34.1 [31.7–36.6]) | 41.6 | 16.0 | 659 (27.2 [24.9–29.6]) |
| 1–3 | 1880 (26.3 [25.1–27.5]) | 494 (21.7 [19.8–23.7]) | 40.2 | 19.7 | 582 (23.2 [21.2–25.3]) |
| >3 | 1490 (19.3 [18.2–20.4]) | 1036 (44.2 [41.8–46.5]) | 41.6 | 25.2 | 1291 (49.6 [47.2–52.1]) |
| Missing | 56 | 24 | … | … | 49 |
| No. of Papanicolaou tests in past 6 y | |||||
| 0 | 782 (9.9 [9.1–10.9]) | 718 (31.1 [28.8–33.5]) | 41.1 | 26.8 | 907 (34.7 [32.4–37.2]) |
| 1 | 681 (9.2 [8.4–10.0]) | 264 (11.5 [10.0–13.2]) | 41.7 | 21.0 | 326 (12.8 [11.4–14.4]) |
| 2 | 660 (9.0 [8.3–9.9]) | 210 (9.0 [7.7–10.5]) | 40.4 | 22.4 | 250 (10.1 [8.7–11.6]) |
| 3 | 808 (11.4 [10.6–12.2]) | 203 (9.9 [8.4–11.7]) | 40.2 | 19.5 | 255 (11.0 [9.5–12.7]) |
| 4 | 513 (6.7 [6.1–7.4]) | 128 (5.6 [4.6–6.7]) | 41.8 | 16.7 | 129 (4.7 [3.8–5.7]) |
| 5 | 535 (8.2 [7.4–9.2]) | 102 (4.8 [3.8–6.1]) | 41.9 | 19.2 | 122 (5.3 [4.2–6.6]) |
| 6 | 3032 (44.4 [42.9–45.9]) | 593 (26.9 [24.9–29.1]) | 41.6 | 15.9 | 504 (21.2 [19.2–23.2]) |
| ≥7 | 93 (1.1 [0.0–1.4]) | c | c | c | c |
| Missing | 112 | 60 | … | … | 88 |
Abbreviations: GED, General Education Development; HPV, human papillomavirus.
Includes all women 30 years and older, excluding women who report history of cervical cancer or an abnormal Papanicolaou test result in the past 3 years and women whose last Papanicolaou test was not a routine test (meaning that women who never had a Papanicolaou test are excluded). Mean age at hysterectomy and mean time since hysterectomy are missing for 105 of the 2278 women who report a hysterectomy. Percentages are weighted estimates. Missing responses are not included in the denominator. All analyses account for the stratification and clustering of data within the complex survey design of the NHIS.
Private insurance includes military insurance; public insurance includes Medicaid, Medicare, State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Indian Health Service (IHS), and other public and other government insurance types; single service plan is considered underinsured and is included with uninsured.
Suppressed because of count less than 50 and/or relative standard error greater than 0.30.
Women 65 years and older were not asked whether they had ever heard of HPV.
Excludes women who did not have a Papanicolaou test in the past 3 years.