Table 3.

Association between neighborhood SES and multiple myeloma-specific mortality risk by race/ethnicity, from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Registry, 2000–2015

	Crude SHR (95% CI)	Age and sex-adjusted SHR (95% CI)
Non-Hispanic whites
Low	1.20 (1.16–1.26)	1.17 (1.12–1.22)
Medium	1.17 (1.13–1.22)	1.15 (1.11–1.19)
High	(ref)	(ref)
Non-Hispanic Blacks
Low	1.17 (1.07–1.28)	1.14 (1.04–1.23)
Medium	1.08 (0.98–1.19)	1.08 (0.98–1.19)
High	(ref)	(ref)
Hispanic
Low	1.08 (0.98–1.19)	1.09 (0.98–1.20)
Medium	1.07 (0.96–1.18)	1.07 (0.96–1.19)
High	(ref)	(ref)
Non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islanders
Low	1.41 (1.22–1.64)	1.35 (1.16–1.57)
Medium	1.19 (1.05–1.35)	1.18 (1.04–1.33)
High	(ref)	(ref)

(SHR) Subhazard ratio, calculated using competing risks regression, stratified by race/ethnicity