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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research Volume 2012, Article ID 179150, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2012/179150 Research Article Associations of Education Level and Bone Density Tests among Cognitively Intact Elderly White Women in Managed Medicare Di Shi,1 Michael T. Yin,2 Qiuhu Shi,3 and Donald R. Hoover4 1 School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buff alo, 131 Biomedical Education Building, Buff alo, NY 14214, USA 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Columbia University Medical Center, PH8-876, 630 w168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA 3 Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Health Sciences and Practice, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, NY 10595, USA 4 Department of Statistics and Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, 110 Frelinghuysen Road, Room 473, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Di Shi, deandishi@ Received 4 June 2012; Accepted 8 August 2012 Academic Editor: Francesc Formiga Copyright © 2012 Di Shi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives. To examine associations between having bone density tests and level of education among white elderly women in managed Medicare. Method. Data from the ninth through twelfth cohort (2006–2009) of the Medicare Health Outcome Survey (HOS) of managed Medicare plans were analyzed; 239331 white elderly women were included. Respondents were grouped by education level and the percentages of respondents who had lifetime bone density testing done among each group were analyzed. Results. 6