• Ahsan Wahab, Basel Abdelazeem, Adeel Masood, Maria Khakwani, Bharath Kumar Jakka, Ujwala Koduru, and Hamid Ehsan.
• Internal Medicine/Hospital Medicine, Baptist Medical Center South, Prattville Baptist Hospital, Montgomery, AL.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Sep 23; 101 (38): e30539.

AbstractMedical uninsurance (MU) is associated with cancer disparities, particularly among underprivileged and minority sections of the United States. In this cross-sectional study of National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2013 to 2018, we evaluated sociodemographic attributes of MU disparity in the US cancer population. Those aged ≥20 years with a history of cancer and disclosed MU status were included. We calculated the descriptive statistics of the population stratified by insurance type and performed bivariate and multivariate logistic regression models to assess the association of sociodemographic attributes and MU and reported unadjusted (UOR) and adjusted odds ratios (AOR). Among the 1681 participants (US estimated, 25,982,352), 4.3% ± 0.62 were uninsured. Uninsured individuals were 13.5-year younger, largely female, less educated, and non-US born compared to insured individuals. Age (UOR: 0.94, 95% CI: 0.93-0.96), female sex (UOR: 3.53, 95% CI: 1.73-7.19), Hispanics (UOR: 4.30, 95% CI: 2.45-7.54), Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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