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Table 1 Demographic and epidemiological characteristics of AAW and CW with TNBC

From: Outcome disparities in African American women with triple negative breast cancer: a comparison of epidemiological and molecular factors between African American and Caucasian women with triple negative breast cancer

	AAW (n = 62)	CW (n = 98)	P-value
Age at diagnosis			0.215
<40 years	0.15	0.07
40–49 years	0.38	0.35
≥50 years	0.47	0.58
Oral contraceptive use			0.555
Yes	0.67	0.71
No	0.33	0.29
Parous			0.605
Yes	0.81	0.85
No	0.19	0.16
HRT use^a			0.182
Yes	0.33	0.47
No	0.67	0.53
Type HRT used			0.971
Estrogen	0.31	0.30
Estrogen and progesterone	0.54	0.52
Unknown	0.15	0.18
Breastfeed ^b			0.001
Yes	0.33	0.63
No	0.67	0.37
BMI			0.024
<18.5	0.02	0.00
18.5–24.9	0.27	0.23
25–29.9	0.22	0.45
30+	0.49	0.32
Fat intake^c			0.731
	0.24	0.22
	0.76	0.78
Exercise			0.138
≤150 minute	0.80	0.69
≥150 minutes	0.20	0.31
Smoking			0.757
Never	0.63	0.57
Past smoker	0.26	0.30
Current smoker	0.11	0.13
Caffeine intake			<0.001
Safe/moderate (<500 mg/day)	0.60	0.30
High/extremely high (≥500 mg/day)	0.40	0.70
Alcohol consumption			0.029
none	0.46	0.27
<1 drink/day	0.53	0.64
1 drink/day	0.01	0.09
Education			0.794
College degree or higher	0.50	0.48
Less than college degree	0.50	0.52
Marital status			0.671
Married	0.64	0.68
Not married	0.36	0.32
Cardiovascular disease			0.623
Yes	0.03	0.02
No	0.97	0.98
Diabetes			0.080
Yes	0.16	0.07
No	0.84	0.93
Hypertension			0.147
Yes	0.40	0.29
No	0.60	0.71

^aEvaluated in post-menopausal women only.
^bEvaluated in parous women only.
^cAssessed using the Northwest LRC Fat Intake Score.
Significant differences noted in bold.

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