«U.S. women's awareness of
breast density varies by race, ethnicity, education and income.»
Not exact matches
Breast fillets, with their consistent -
density fibres all running in the same direction, do not present as great a challenge to X-ray inspection as deboned thighs, whose muscle and fat
vary considerably in
density.
Furthermore, an experiment involving the same woman imaged over 8 years on different x-ray systems revealed
varying results of
breast density.
However, before the new research, very few studies had looked at the impact of
breast density on the sensitivity of mammogram results, and some had suggested the
density varies too little over the course of a woman's menstrual cycle to have any impact, said study researcher Dr. Diana Miglioretti, a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute in Seattle.