ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Glob. Women’s Health
Sec. Quality of Life
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fgwh.2025.1561669
The association between mammography reports and women's age using retrospective data form a medical system
Provisionally accepted
- 1Outpatient Department, Eda Cheong Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 2Department of Health Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 3Department of Occupational Medicine, E-DA Hospital and College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 4Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, E-Da Hospital, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- 5Department of Public Health, Kaohsiung Medical University, and Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Objective: We explored the association of age, obesity and marital status with Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) category distribution in women, using retrospective mammography data from a medical system, as only a few studies have investigated this association.This retrospective study collected the first left-lateral and right-lateral mammography data of 4165 and 4213 women from 2011 to 2020 in a medical system, respectively, to be analyzed. We examined the association of age, body mass index (BMI), and marital status with BI-RADS categories using the Chisquare test and multinomial logistic regression.The proportion of BI-RADS category 0 decreased with age, but the proportion of BI-RADS categories 4 and 5 increased with age. Women aged >69 years had a higher proportion of BI-RADS categories 4 and 5 (adjusted odds ratio[aOR]=1.34 for left-lateral mammography and aOR=1.29 for right-lateral mammography data) than women aged 45-69 years. Overweight was associated with the rate of the proportion of BI-RADS categories 4 and 5 of the left-lateral breast (aOR=1.26, p<0.05) but not with the right-lateral breast.Conclusions: Age >69 years, being overweight, and being separated/divorced/widowed were the factors associated with BI-RADS categories 4 and 5 of women who underwent mammography.
Keywords: Mammography, BI-RADS, female, breast cancer, age, BMI, marital status 2085; Tables: 3
Received: 23 Jan 2025; Accepted: 28 May 2025.
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* Correspondence: Yi-Chun Chen, Department of Health Management, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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