Example sentences for: sfba
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Using population estimates obtained from the California Department of Finance [ 9 ] , we calculated incidence and mortality rates for the individual years 1990-1999 as well as for the 5-year period 1995-1999 for three geographic areas: Marin County, the rest of the SFBA (Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties), and other urban counties in California.
CI = confidence interval; SFBA = San Francisco Bay Area.
Rates of later-stage (stage III/stage IV) disease were not significantly different in Marin County (15 cases per 100,000; 95% CI, 12-19) as compared with those in other areas (SFBA: 13 cases per 100,000; 95% CI, 12-14; other urban California counties: 14 cases per 100,000; 95% CI, 13-14).
Linear regression showed that breast cancer rates increased 37% in Marin County between 1990 and 1999, but increased only 3% in the rest of the SFBA and other urban counties in California.
Annual, age-adjusted breast cancer incidence rates for Marin County averaged over the five most recent years for which we have data (1995-1999) exceeded, by at least 20%, those from any single other urban county in California, and they were 28% higher than rates for other SFBA counties and were 38% higher than rates for other urban counties combined (Table 2).