Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2013 Jan 29;119(9):1652–1659. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27952

Table 2.

Results of Cox proportional hazards modeling for age at final menstrual period

Primary Analyses Sensitivity Analyses (Ages 40 – 55 Only) Secondary Analyses (Omit surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy)
Model-BRCA vs. SWAN HR (95% CI) p-value N HR (95% CI) p-value N HR (95% CI) p-value N
Unadjusted (all) 1147 937 805
    BRCA 2.32 (1.74, 3.10) <0.0001* 2.21 (1.30, 3.76) 0.0034* 4.38 (3.28, 5.85) <0.0001*
    SWAN Reference Reference Reference
Unadjusted (all with complete data) 987 862 780
    BRCA 4.06 (3.03, 5.45) <0.0001* 2.69 (1.57, 4.62) 0.0003* 4.70 (3.50, 6.30) <0.0001*
    SWAN Reference Reference Reference
Adjusted:(c) 987 862 780
    BRCA 3.98 (2.87, 5.53) <0.0001* 2.82 (1.56, 5.09) 0.0006* 4.33 (3.13, 6.01) <0.0001*
    SWAN Reference Reference Reference
Parity: 0.4958 0.8565 0.4746
    0 Reference Reference Reference
    1 1.25 (0.83, 1.89) 1.03 (0.59, 1.79) 0.95 (0.62, 1.47)
    2 1.21 (0.76, 1.93) 0.89 (0.56, 1.43) 0.80 (0.55, 1.17)
    3+ 0.97 (0.65, 1.47) 1.11 (0.66, 1.85) 0.75 (0.49, 1.14)
History of OCP use: 0.0659 0.0639 0.0631
    No Reference Reference Reference
    Yes 0.72 (0.51, 1.02) 0.65 (0.41, 1.03) 0.72 (0.51, 1.02)
History of smoking: 0.0013* 0.0275* 0.0085*
    Never Reference Reference Reference
    Past 1.27 (0.88, 1.85) 1.14 (0.74, 1.76) 1.12 (0.77, 1.62)
    Current 2.01 (1.38, 2.93) 1.94 (1.19, 3.16) 1.79 1.23, 2.61)
*

statistical significance; (a) HR=hazard ratio, CI=confidence interval; (b) Multivariate model including as predictors for all variables in the table