Table 1. Characteristics of women who are using hormones versus nonusers in a population living in Rancho Bernardo, California, from 1972 to 1974 (N = 2,861).
| No hormone use (n = 1,837) |
Current hormone use (n = 1,024) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) | Pa | ||
| Age, y | 58.9 (14.4) | 58.5 (10.8) | 0.37 |
| BMI, kg/m2 | 24.0 (3.8) | 23.1 (2.9) | <0.0001 |
| Frequency (%) | |||
| Education | 0.033 | ||
| College graduate or more | 449 (24.5) | 289 (28.4) | |
| Some college | 620 (33.8) | 347 (34.1) | |
| High school graduate or less | 764 (41.7) | 381 (37.5) | |
| Smoking category | 0.001 | ||
| Never smoked | 943 (51.5) | 447 (43.7) | |
| Former smoker | 435 (23.7) | 276 (27.0) | |
| 1-10 cigarettes/d | 159 (8.7) | 90 (8.8) | |
| 11-20 cigarettes/d | 179 (9.8) | 123 (12.0) | |
| 21 or more cigarettes/d | 116 (6.3) | 86 (8.4) | |
| Marital status | 0.003 | ||
| Not marriedb | 341 (18.6) | 146 (14.3) | |
| Married | 1496 (81.4) | 878 (85.7) | |
BMI, body mass index.
a
P value for t test for means and χ2 test for categories.
b
”Not married“ includes those who have never been married or are separated, divorced, or widowed.