Table 2.

Comparison^* of C-reactive protein frequency distributions between 10,953 hormone therapy (HT) users and 15,838 HT non-users at the time of the baseline blood collection.

Hormone Category	Number of Women	Mean (SD)	C-reactive protein (mg/L)
			Percentile
			5th	10th	25th	50th	75th	90th
HT Non- users†	15,838	3.01 (5.22)	0.19	0.29	0.61	1.51	3.47	6.59
HT Users	10,953	4.67 (6.25)	0.39	0.60	1.38	2.95	5.61	9.14

^*P <0.001 for the comparison of C-reactive protein levels between hormone categories.

^†HT non-users include never users of HT and past users of HT.