Research Article
Factors Associated with Initial Mode of Breast Cancer Detection among Black Women in the Women’s Circle of Health Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of Black women age 40-75 years in the Women’s Circle of Health Study (WCHS), overall and by initial mode of breast cancer detection.
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The unmarried category is composed of those who reported being single/never married, separated, divorced, or widowed. $70,000 is the median income among households in New Jersey and was used as the cut-point to dichotomize the income variable. The “other” insurance category includes forms of insurance reported by WCHS participants that did not fall into one of the four main categories above and included the following types of insurance coverage: school-provided, national government-provided [foreign country], spousal insurance, health center care, charity care, health savings account, and Veterans Affairs coverage. |