{"id":7159,"date":"2022-11-10T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2022-11-16T20:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:32:43","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-%e2%89%a545-years-who-have-ever-had-lung-cancer-by-education-level-national-health-interview-survey-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/11\/10\/7159\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged \u226545 Years Who Have Ever Had Lung Cancer by Education Level \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7145a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/wwwdev.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7145a6-F.gif?_=04332\" width=\"447\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 3.2% of adults aged \u226545 years had ever been told they had lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of lung cancer among adults aged \u226545 years was highest for those with less than a high school education (8.6%).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of adults who had ever had lung cancer decreased with increasing education level, with the lowest prevalence occurring among those with a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher (1.6%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<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\/71\/wr\/mm7145a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7145a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 3.2% of adults aged \u226545 years had ever been told they had lung cancer. The prevalence of lung cancer among adults aged \u226545 years was highest for those with less than a high school education (8.6%). The percentage of adults who had ever had lung cancer decreased with increasing education level, with the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10559,64364,53746,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}