{"id":4660,"date":"2019-10-18T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T14:00:23","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-women-aged-50-years-or-older-who-have-had-a-hysterectomy-by-race-ethnicity-and-year-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2008-and-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/10\/18\/4660\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Women Aged 50 Years or Older Who Have Had a Hysterectomy, by Race\/Ethnicity and Year \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2008 and 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6841a3.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6841a3-F.gif\" width=\"444\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of women aged 50 years or older who have had a hysterectomy decreased from 36.6% in 2008 to 31.7% in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Decreases were also observed among non-Hispanic white women (37.5% to 33.3%) and Hispanic women (30.3% to 22.6%), but there was no significant decrease for non-Hispanic black women (40.4% to 36.8%).<\/p>\n<p>For both time points, non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women were more likely than Hispanic women to have had a hysterectomy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> National Health Interview Survey, 2008 and 2018 data. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6841a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6841a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of women aged 50 years or older who have had a hysterectomy decreased from 36.6% in 2008 to 31.7% in 2018. Decreases were also observed among non-Hispanic white women (37.5% to 33.3%) and Hispanic women (30.3% to 22.6%), but there was no significant decrease for non-Hispanic black women (40.4% to 36.8%). For both<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62358,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}