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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2014 Dec 23;121(9):1379–1386. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29214

Table 1.

Characteristics of women at the digital screening mammography by age group

Characteristic Age Group
65–69 (N=110,096) 70–74 (N=78,985) 75–79 (N=57,488) 80–84 (N=33,950) 85+ (N=15,977) Total (N=296,496)
N % N % N % N % N % N %
Race/ethnicity
 White 76,956 75.3 53,612 73.8 38,960 75.3 23,123 78.7 10,648 81.3 203,299 75.6
 Black 6,735 6.6 4,926 6.8 3,403 6.6 1,661 5.7 779 6.0 17,504 6.5
 Asian or Pacific Islander 13,716 13.4 10,889 15.0 7,521 14.5 3,676 12.5 1,291 9.9 37,093 13.8
 American Indian 190 0.2 139 0.2 62 0.1 37 0.1 13 0.1 441 0.2
 Hispanic 3,283 3.2 2,186 3.0 1,323 2.6 618 2.1 229 1.8 7,639 2.8
 Other or mixed 1,379 1.4 873 1.2 478 0.9 268 0.9 132 1.0 3,130 1.2
missing 7,837 7.1 6,360 8.1 5,741 10.0 4,567 13.5 2,885 18.1 27,390 9.2

Family history of breast cancer
 No 90,449 82.9 64,379 82.2 46,387 81.2 27,001 80.0 12,476 78.6 240,692 81.8
 Yes 18,724 17.2 13,916 17.8 10,736 18.8 6,753 20.0 3,394 21.4 53,523 18.2
missing 923 0.8 690 0.9 365 0.6 196 0.6 107 0.7 2,281 0.8

BI-RADS breast density*
 Almost entirely fat 15,253 16.4 11,133 16.7 8,025 16.5 4,714 16.2 2,053 15.1 41,178 16.4
 Scattered fibroglandular 46,970 50.4 35,053 52.5 25,830 53.2 15,900 54.7 7,355 54.1 131,108 52.2
 Heterogeneously dense 27,988 30.0 18,885 28.3 13,402 27.6 7,737 26.6 3,731 27.5 71,743 28.6
 Extremely dense 3,057 3.3 1,649 2.5 1,259 2.6 717 2.5 455 3.4 7,137 2.8
missing 16,828 15.3 12,265 15.5 8,972 15.6 4,882 14.4 2,383 14.9 45,330 15.3

History of breast procedure
 No 75,975 72.8 54,148 72.6 39,928 73.5 23,678 73.9 11,370 75.4 205,099 73.1
 Yes 28,395 27.2 20,466 27.4 14,436 26.6 8,362 26.1 3,718 24.6 75,377 26.9
missing 5,726 5.2 4,371 5.5 3,124 5.4 1,910 5.6 889 5.6 16,020 5.4

Current HT use
 No 81,975 87.6 58,672 89.4 43,620 91.2 26,099 91.7 12,422 92.4 222,788 89.5
 Yes 11,575 12.4 6,927 10.6 4,209 8.8 2,373 8.3 1,021 7.6 26,105 10.5
missing 16,546 15.0 13,386 17.0 9,659 16.8 5,478 16.1 2,534 15.9 47,603 16.1

Time since previous examination, months
 9–17 79,214 74.1 58,904 76.3 43,366 76.9 25,237 75.9 11,649 74.7 218,370 75.5
 18–29 18,110 16.9 11,705 15.2 8,138 14.4 4,820 14.5 2,201 14.1 44,974 15.5
 30–41 4,670 4.4 3,496 4.5 2,536 4.5 1,564 4.7 811 5.2 13,077 4.5
 42+ 4,922 4.6 3,097 4.0 2,348 4.2 1,620 4.9 944 6.1 12,931 4.5
missing 3,180 2.9 1,783 2.3 1,100 1.9 709 2.1 372 2.3 7,144 2.4
*

BI-RADS density = Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System breast density categories defined as: 1=almost entirely fatty, 2=scattered fibroglandular densities 3=heterogeneously dense and 4=extremely dense