Neighborhood-Level Factors Contribute to Disparities in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Incidence in Texas.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Texas has the highest hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) incidence rates in the continental United States, but these rates vary by race-ethnicity. We examined racial-ethnic disparities through a geospatial analysis of the social determinants of health.

Methods

Using data from the Texas Cancer Registry, we assembled 11,547 HCC cases diagnosed between 2011 and 2015 into Texas's census tracts geographic units. Twenty-nine neighborhood measures representing demographics and socioeconomic, and employment domains were retrieved from the U.S. Census Bureau. We performed a series of aspatial and spatially weighted regression models to identify neighborhood-level characteristics associated with HCC risk.

Results

We found positive associations between HCC and pr

SUBMITTER: Oluyomi AO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898456 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature