Table 3. Cause of death according to the use of hormone treatment at baseline.
Hormone Therapy | All-cause | Cancer | Cardiovascular disease | Respiratory, infectious disease | Cachexia, diseases of the digestive tract | Other causes | Ill-defined |
% (n) | % | % | % | % | % | ||
Never | 8.0 (284) | 32.8 | 24.3 | 8.5 | 4.2 | 9.1 | 21.1 |
Past HT use | 6.2 (52) | 44.2 | 17.3 | 7.7 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 19.2 |
Current HT use | 2.2 (16) | 75.0 | 6.3 | 12.5 | 0 | 0 | 6.2 |
p-valuea | <0.001 | 0.32 | <0.001 | 0.30 | 0.41 | 0.04 | 0.005 |
Unadjusted chi-squared analysis for the difference in the frequency of deaths according to HT use.