. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Head Neck. 2020 Sep 12;43(1):108–115. doi: 10.1002/hed.26465

TABLE 1.

Demographic characteristics and joinpoint regression analysis of oropharyngeal cancer trends in the Veterans Health Administration, 2000-2012

Variable	No. of subjects (%)	Time interval	APC
All subjects	12 125 (100)	2000-2006	−4.27^*
		2006-2012	7.02^*

Age
18-49	771 (6.4)	2000-2012	−3.94^*
50-69	9011 (74.3)	2000-2006	−1.42
		2006-2012	7.13^*
70 and above	2343 (19.3)	2000-2004	−11.29^*
		2004-2012	4.77^*

Race^a
Non-Hispanic white	9606 (79.2)	2000-2006	−2.17
		2006-2012	7.19^*
African American	1689 (14)	2000-2006	−6.20^*
		2006-2012	4.87^*

Abbreviation: APC, annual percent change.

Eight-hundred and thirty subjects (6.8%) that belong to the “Hispanic” and “other/unknown race/ethnicity” groups are not displayed in this table as the numbers are too small to perceive any significant APC or to detect any joinpoint.

Note: P < .05.