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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Jan 28;173(2):96–103. doi: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.962

Table 3. Characteristics of Women Who Underwent RRSO After BRCA Testing.

No. (%)

Characteristic No RRSO (n = 757) RRSO (n = 206) Adjusted OR (95% CI) P Value
BRCA result
 Uninformative 605 (87.7) 85 (12.3) 1 [Reference]
 Positive 52 (30.4) 119 (69.6) 28.1 (16.2-48.6) <.001
 True-negative 100 (98.0) 2 (2.0) 0.1 (0.0-0.6) .01
Age at RRSO or survey, ya
 <40 106 (79.1) 28 (20.9) 1 [Reference]
 40-49 216 (71.3) 87 (28.7) 2.6 (1.2-5.6) .01
 50-59 237 (78.7) 64 (21.3) 2.1 (1.0-4.6) .06
 ≥60 198 (89.6) 23 (10.4) 0.8 (0.3-2.0) .63
Race
 Nonwhite 120 (78.9) 32 (21.1) 1 [Reference]
 White 636 (78.5) 174 (21.5) 1.2 (0.6-2.2) .59
Ashkenazi Jewishb
 No 418 (78.3) 116 (21.7) 1 [Reference]
 Yes 300 (78.7) 81 (21.3) 0.9 (0.6-1.4) .63
Income-producing assets, $ <.001
 ≤100 000 148 (85.5) 25 (14.5) 1 [Reference]
 100 001-500 000 255 (78.9) 68 (21.1) 1.8 (0.9-3.5) .11
 500 001-1 000 000 100 (74.1) 35 (25.9) 3.3 (1.5-7.4) .004
 ≥1 000 001 254 (76.7) 77 (23.3) 3.5 (1.7-7.3) <.001
Testing sitec
 SFGH 55 (88.7) 7 (11.3)
 Diller 702 (77.9) 199 (22.1)
BMI, mean (SD) 24.4 (4.8) 25.0 (5.6) 1.0 (1.0-1.1) .84
No. of live births
 Mean (SD) 1 (1) 2 (1)
 0 226 (82.8) 47 (17.2) 1 [Reference]
 1 163 (81.5) 37 (18.5) 1.3 (0.7-2.5) .46
 ≥2 362 (74.9) 121 (25.1) 2.3 (1.3-3.9) .003
Personal history of breast cancer 476 (77.4) 139 (22.6) 2.2 (1.3-3.7) .004
First-degree relative with breast cancer 303 (75.4) 99 (24.6) 1.12 (0.8-1.8) .48
First-degree relative with ovarian cancer 102 (61.1) 65 (38.9) 4.2 (2.4-7.4) <.001

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); Diller, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; OR, odds ratio; RRSO, risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy; SFGH, San Francisco General Hospital.

a

Age at RRSO for respondents reporting RRSO. For respondents who did not report RRSO, age at survey.

b

Forty-seven participants responded that they did not know whether they had Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.

c

Testing site was not included in the final multivariate model because of the low absolute number of RRSOs (n = 7) in the SFGH population per the statistical analysis plan described in the “Methods” section.