Table 3.
Age-Adjusted Pediatric Optic Pathway Glioma Incidence Rates by Race/Ethnicity Among Young Children, Ages 0–4 and 5–9, SEER 18 2000–2014.
| Ages 0–4 | Ages 5–9 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race/Ethnicitya | Rateb | SE | Lower CIc | Upper CI | Count | Rate Ratio (95% CI) | Population | Rate | SE | Lower CI | Upper CI | Count | Rate Ratio (95% CI) | Population |
| White | 0.66 | 0.04 | 0.58 | 0.74 | 259 | Reference (1.00) | 39,337,831 | 0.32 | 0.03 | 0.26 | 0.38 | 130 | Reference (1.00) | 40,917,721 |
| Black | 0.29* | 0.05 | 0.20 | 0.41 | 33 | 0.44 (0.30–0.64) | 11,335,870 | 0.08* | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.16 | 10 | 0.27 (0.13–0.51) | 11,777,635 |
| Asian | 0.31* | 0.07 | 0.20 | 0.47 | 23 | 0.48 (0.30–0.73) | 7,326,458 | 0.08* | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.18 | 6 | 0.26 (0.09–0.58) | 7,321,100 |
| Latino/a | 0.24* | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.31 | 66 | 0.37 (0.28–0.49) | 27,041,206 | 0.16* | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.22 | 41 | 0.51 (0.35–0.73) | 25,446,039 |
a
The Latino/a category includes those of all races, while all other race categories exclude those identified as Latino/a;
b
Rates are per 100,000 persons and age-adjusted to the 2000 US Standard Population (19 age groups - Census P25-1130) standard;
c
Confidence intervals (Tiwari mod) are 95% for rates and ratios;
*
The rate is significantly different than the rate for Whites (P<0.05).
Data for “Non-Latino/a Other” not shown due to limited sample size.