Table 2.

Age-adjusted mortality rate and proportional mortality ratio due to thyroid cancer by gender, nativity status, and educational attainment.

	Filipino	Non-Filipino Asian	Non-Hispanic White
Age-adjusted mortality rate*, per 100,000 people
Total	1.72 (1.51, 1.95)	1.03 (0.95, 1.12)	1.17 (1.16, 1.18)
Male	1.57 (1.25, 1.95)	0.76 (0.66, 0.88)	0.83 (0.81, 0.85)
Female	1.83 (1.56, 2.13)	1.22 (1.11, 1.35)	1.44 (1.41, 1.46)
Pairwise P-Value of age-adjusted mortality rate	Filipino vs. NFA	NFA vs. NHW	NHW vs. Filipino
Total	<0.0001	0.0013	<0.0001
Male	<0.0001	0.12	<0.0001
Female	<0.0001	0.0005	0.0014
Proportional mortality ratio*
Total	3.94 (3.49, 4.44)	2.16 (1.99, 2.34)	1
Foreign-born	4.09 (3.61, 4.63)	2.27 (2.08, 2.49)	1.14 (1.07, 1.21)
US-born	2.56 (1.59, 4.13)	1.80 (1.51, 2.15)	0.99 (0.97, 1.01)
No Bachelor’s degree	3.46 (2.95, 4.05)	2.11 (1.92, 2.31)	0.93 (0.91, 0.95)
Bachelor’s degree or higher	5.04 (4.18, 6.08)	2.33 (1.99, 2.74)	1.47 (1.42, 1.53)
P-value of proportional mortality ratio
Total	<0.0001	<0.0001	-
Foreign-born	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
US-born	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.17
No Bachelor’s degree	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001
Bachelor’s degree or higher	<0.0001	<0.0001	<0.0001

^*95% confidence intervals presented within parentheses.

Note: Referent population for proportional mortality ratio was all Non-Hispanic Whites.