Obesity Status and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the United States

Table 2

Demographic characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries aged 50 years and older in 2005*.

Characteristics	% (SE)
Gender
Male	43.8 (0.4)
Female	56.2 (0.4)
Age
Less than 65	15.1 (0.4)
65–74	41.0 (0.4)
75+	44.0 (0.4)
Race
White	78.8 (1.0)
Black	9.2 (0.8)
Hispanic	5.8 (0.5)
Other	6.2 (0.4)
Education
College degree or higher	19.5 (0.7)
Some college	14.4 (0.5)
High school/vocational grad	37.0 (0.6)
No high school diploma	29.0 (0.7)
Marital status
Married	51.5 (0.5)
Divorced	11.8 (0.3)
Widowed	29.4 (0.4)
Never married	7.1 (0.2)
Other	0.2 (0.03)
Supplemental insurance
Private	55.9 (0.8)
Medicaid	17.3 (0.5)
Medicaid + Private	1.2 (0.1)
None	25.6 (0.7)
Income
Greater than $50 K	11.0 (0.5)
$25 K to $50 K	40.1 (0.6)
Less than $25 K	48.9 (0.9)
Obesity classification
Normal or underweight	36.6 (0.5)
Overweight	37.8 (0.5)
Obese	22.4 (0.5)
Morbidly obese	3.1 (0.2)
History of CRC screening
Yes	65.3 (0.6)
No	34.7 (0.6)

∗Using the unweighted data including all samples of 15,769 Medicare beneficiaries from the MCBS data, all estimates are calculated from the weighted analyses. (𝑁 = 39,337,911 beneficiaries).