Table 2.
Percent of CVD cases with varying degrees of case confirmation status for cases reported from 1989–2007, by history of child abuse, Nurses’ Health Study 2.
| Definite Cases | Probable Cases: Upon recontact, participant or kin confirmed questionnaire report of CVD, but case was not definite because: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Confirmed by medical record review | Confirmed only by death certificate autopsy report | Medical records unavailable | Too little information from participant to retrieve records | Participant denied permission to review records | |
| Physical Abuse | |||||
| None | 72% | 0% | 10% | 8% | 10% |
| Mild | 65% | 0% | 10% | 9% | 17% |
| Moderate | 66% | 0% | 9% | 9% | 16% |
| Severe | 50% | 1% | 12% | 6% | 31% |
| p-value1 | 0.009 | 0.09 | 0.96 | 0.91 | 0.0006 |
| Sexual Abuse | |||||
| None | 66% | 0% | 12% | 8% | 15% |
| Sexual touching | 72% | 0% | 7% | 8% | 13% |
| Forced sex | 59% | 1% | 8% | 10% | 22% |
| p-value1 | 0.14 | 0.09 | 0.23 | 0.70 | 0.22 |
1
Chi-square test across abuse categories. (The p-value across all confirmation status categories was 0.01 for physical abuse and 0.15 for sexual abuse)