Inequalities in socioeconomic status and race and the odds of undergoing a mammogram in Brazil

Table 2 Multivariate logistic regression, race/skin color stratified by per capita family income, having had a mammogram for women 40 years of age or older (OR), Brazil, Metropolitan Regions, 2008

Metropolitan Regions	Age group		Race/skin color
Metropolitan Regions	50 to 69 years	70 years or more	brown	black
Per capita family income: up to 1⁄2 MW
Metropolitan Regions combined^a	1.37	0.61	0.82	0.75
MR Rio de Janeiro	1.00	0.80	0.96	0.59
MR Belo Horizonte	1.76	1.04	1.03	1.21
MR Porto Alegre	1.65	0.52	0.96	0.70
MR Belém	1.22	0.40	0.74	0.83
MR Fortaleza	1.46	0.44	0.85	0.45
MR Recife	1.57	0.87	0.82	0.78
MR Salvador	1.35	1.01	0.76	0.89
Per capita family income: 1⁄2 MW or more
Metropolitan Regions combined^a	1.32	0.52	0.65	0.64
MR Rio de Janeiro	1.31	0.58	0.70	0.63
MR Belo Horizonte	1.35	0.53	0.62	0.42
MR Porto Alegre	1.45	0.57	0.64	0.85
MR Belém	1.14	0.54	0.72	0.70
MR Fortaleza	1.22	0.55	0.54	0.37
MR Recife	1.68	0.57	0.67	0.50
MR Salvador	1.76	0.61	0.55	0.47

^aIncluding the São Paulo and Curitiba Metropolitan Regions, with a cutoff value of 1 MW
Highlighted values, significant at 5 %

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