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Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2014, Pages 223 - 230

Mammography use among women with and without diabetes: Results from the Southern Community Cohort Study

Authors
Maureen Sandersona, *, msanderson@mmc.edu, Loren Lipworthb, Xijing Hanc, Alicia Beeghly-Fadielb, David Shen-Millerd, Kushal Patele, William J. Blotb, c, Margaret K. Hargreavesf
aDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, United States
bDepartment of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, United States
cInternational Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD 20850, United States
dDepartment of Psychology, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37208, United States
eDepartment of Public Health, Health Administration, and Health Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37208, United States
fDepartment of Internal Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN 37208, United States
*Corresponding author. Address: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College, 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208, United States. Tel.: +1 615 321 2977; fax: +1 615 327 6296.
Corresponding Author
Maureen Sandersonmsanderson@mmc.edu
Received 12 February 2014, Revised 25 February 2014, Accepted 16 March 2014, Available Online 19 April 2014.
DOI
10.1016/j.jegh.2014.03.001How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Mammography use; Diabetes; Cohort; Racial differences
Abstract

Studies have shown an increased risk of breast cancer associated with diabetes which may be due to differences in mammography use among women who have diabetes compared with women who do not have diabetes. Baseline data was used from the Southern Community Cohort Study – a prospective cohort study conducted primarily among low-income persons in the southeastern United States – to examine the association between diabetes and mammography use. In-person interviews collected information on diabetes and mammography use from 14,665 white and 30,846 black women aged 40–79 years between 2002 and 2009. After adjustment for potential confounding, white women with diabetes were no more likely (odds ratio [OR] 0.95, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.85–1.06) to undergo mammography within the past 12 months than white women without diabetes. Nor was there an association between diabetes and mammography use among black women (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.93–1.07). An increase in mammography use was seen within one year following diabetes diagnosis, more so among white than black women, but this was offset by decreases thereafter. Although there was some evidence of an increase in mammography use within one year of diabetes diagnosis, these results suggest that mammography use is not related to diabetes.

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Journal
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Volume-Issue
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223 - 230
Publication Date
2014/04/19
ISSN (Online)
2210-6014
ISSN (Print)
2210-6006
DOI
10.1016/j.jegh.2014.03.001How to use a DOI?
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© 2014 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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