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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gynecol Oncol. 2021 Aug 13;163(1):22–28. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2021.07.035

Table 1.

Demographics

Entire Sample

Variable Total n=342 Rural n=135 Urban n=207 p-value

Site
 Iowa, count (%) 231 (60.5) 101 (74.8) 130 (62.8)
 Wash U 111 (39.5) 34 (25.2) 77 (37.2)

Race 0.60
 White 331 (96.8) 133 (98.5) 198 (96.6)
 Black 7 (2.1) 1 (0.7) 6 (2.9)
 Other race 4 (1.2) 1 (0.7) 3 (1.4)

Ethnicity (n=334) (n=131) (n=203)
 Non-Hispanic 333 (99.7) 131 (100) 202 (99.5) 1.0

Marital Status (n=336) (n=133) (n=203)
 Married/with partner 262 (78.0) 108 (81.2) 154 (75.9) 0.25

Education (n=330) (n=132) (n=198) 0.0002
 High school or less 135 (40.9) 68 (51.5) 67 (33.8)
 Some college 100 (30.3) 42 (31.8) 58 (29.3)
 College grad/Postgraduate 95 (28.8) 22 (16.7) 73 (36.9)

Average Income, in $1000 (n=334) (n=133) (n=201)
 Mean [SD] 65.0 [18.5] 58.4 [8.6] 69.4 [21.7] <0.0001

Stage (n=340) (n=133) (n=207) 0.44
 I 47 (13.8) 19 (14.3) 28 (13.5)
 II 19 (5.6) 9 (6.8) 10 (4.8)
 III 236 (69.4) 92 (69.2) 144 (69.6)
 IV 38 (11.2) 13 (9.8) 25 (12.1)

Cytoreduction (n=341) (n=135) (n=206)
 Suboptimal 88 (25.8) 37 (27.4) 51 (24.8) 0.58

Serous 265 (77.5) 109 (80.7) 156 (75.4) 0.24

Neoadjuvant therapy 16 (4.7) 6 (4.4) 10 (4.8) 0.86

Smoking status (n=338) (n=108) (n=144)
 Ever smoked 108 (32.0) 49 (36.3) 59 (29.1) 0.16

Comorbidities 0.76

 0 249 (72.8) 97 (71.8) 152 (75.4)

 1 78 (22.8) 32 (23.7) 46 (22.2)

 2+ 15 (4.4) 6 (4.4) 9 (23.7)

Age, mean [SD] 60.7 [11.1] 60.6 [11.2] 60.8 [11.1] 0.91

Body Mass Index, mean [SD] (n=340) (n=135) (n=205)
29.0 [7.3] 28.8 [6.8] 29.1 [27.5] 0.68

Iowa patients are 43.7% rural; Wash U patients are 30.6% rural