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Table 2 Wealth and poverty SES. Relative changes in breast cancer incidence associated with 2 levels of wealth and five levels of poverty. For wealth, category 2 represents the highest level of wealth. For poverty, category 5 represents the highest level of poverty. For example, the women in the highest poverty level, 5, had an incidence rate 36.9% lower than those in the lowest poverty level, 1.

From: The geographic distribution of breast cancer incidence in Massachusetts 1988 to 1997, adjusted for covariates

 

Categories Compared

% Change

Wealth SES

1 – 2

+8.9

Poverty SES

1 – 5

-36.9

 

2 – 5

-32.2

 

3 – 5

-29.3

 

4 – 5

-19.4