Table 1. Characteristics at recruitment of post-menopausal women included in this analysis.

	Population at risk	Incident cases of pancreatic cancer	Deaths from pancreatic cancer
n	995,192	1,182	1,516
Mean years of follow-up	7.1 for incidence; 8.9 for mortality.
Age in years (mean [SD])	57.3 (4.1)	58.7 (3.9)	58.7 (3.9)
Current smoker	21% (194,617)	33% (363)	34% (482)
Body mass index in kg/m^2 (mean [SD])	26.3 (4.7)	26.6 (4.9)	26.4 (4.8)
History of diabetes	3.0% (29,387)	5.2% (61)	4.6% (70)
Socioeconomic status: upper third	33% (328,516)	32% (379)	31% (470)
Age at menarche (mean [SD])	13.0 (1.6)	13.0 (1.6)	13.1 (1.7)
Parous	89% (885,015)	87% (1,029)	88% (1,339)
Number of children, among parous women (mean [SD])	2.4 (1.1)	2.5 (1.2)	2.5 (1.2)
Ever breast fed, among parous women	69% (477,477)	71% (533)	70% (685)
Age at menopause (mean [SD]) *	49.2 (3.7)	49.3 (3.8)	49.4 (3.8)

^*In 670,002 women with natural menopause or bilateral oophorectomy.