Table 2.
Severity of UTI symptoms according to menopausal status and presence of recurrent UTIs. Six participants responded ‘Don’t know’ to severity based on menopausal status (four in pre-menopausal group and two in the post-menopausal group). Six participants responded ‘Don’t know’ to severity based on presence of recurrent UTIs (four in the 1–2 UTIs in the previous year group and two in the 3 or more UTIs in the past year group.
| Severity Score N (%) | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |||
| Menopausal status | Pre-menopause | 5 (1%) | 11 (2%) | 17 (3%) | 40 (7%) | 45 (8%) | 80 (14%) | 132 (23%) | 113 (20%) | 71 (13%) | 35 (6%) | 19 (3%) | Reference |
| Menopause | 2 (1%) | 3 (1%) | 8 (2%) | 21 (6%) | 15 (4%) | 52 (16%) | 59 (18%) | 79 (24%) | 59 (18%) | 20 (6%) | 14 (4%) | 1.39 (1.04, 1.86) | |
| Post-menopause | 4 (2%) | 1 (0.5%) | 6 (3%) | 12 (6%) | 20 (11%) | 25 (13%) | 22 (12%) | 48 (25%) | 31 (16%) | 11 (5%) | 11 (6%) | 1.20 (0.78, 1.85) | |
| UTIs in the previous year | 1–2 UTIs | 7 (1%) | 14 (1%) | 29 (3%) | 71 (8%) | 70 (8%) | 134 (14%) | 186 (20%) | 207 (22%) | 134 (14%) | 45 (5%) | 31 (3%) | Reference |
| 3 or more UTIs | 4 (2%) | 1 (0.5%) | 2 (1%) | 3 (2%) | 10 (6%) | 23 (14%) | 27 (17%) | 33 (20%) | 28 (17%) | 20 (12%) | 13 (8%) | 1.93 (1.37, 2.73) | |