Mammography Compliance for Arizona and New Mexico Hispanic and American Indian Women 2016-2018.

ABSTRACT: Hispanic and American Indian (AI) women experience lower breast cancer incidence than non-Hispanic White (NHW) women, but later-stage diagnoses and lower survival rates, suggesting issues with screening and healthcare access. Between 1999-2015, NHW breast cancer incidence decreased by 10% but increased by 8% for AI women. This study used 2016 and 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data for Arizona and New Mexico to explore mammography screening. Analyses included Hispanic, AI, and NHW women aged ≥40 years (n = 12,830) to calculate age-specific compliance by race/ethnicity, logistic regression, and adjusted and sample-weighted evaluated associations between compliance and socio-economic covariates. In total, 75.1% of Hispanic women aged 50-74 reported mammography in the

SUBMITTER: Seanez CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10815889 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature