Table 3.

Risk for Total Stroke among Current Postmenopausal Hormone Users Compared to Women Who Never Used Hormones, by Dose of Oral Conjugated Estrogen^*

	Cases	Person-years	Multivariable-adjusted Relative Risk† (95% confidence interval)
Never Used
Hormones	349	452,957	1.00 (reference)
Current Estrogen
0.3mg	25	33,391	0.93 (0.62,1.40)
0.625mg	268	233,249	1.54 (1.31,1.81)
1.25mg	60	59,373	1.62 (1.23,2.14)

^*Follow-up is from 1980–2004, since data on dose were first collected in 1980.

^†Adjusted for age, BMI, high cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, husband’s education, smoking, family history premature MI.