Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the participants.

Characteristics	Pre-menopausal women (n = 52)	Post-menopausal women (n = 63)	P value
Age (year)	45.77±3.23	56.38±4.53	<0.0001 b
BMI	24.53±3.10	24.44±2.92	0.8695 a
Fasting blood glucose (mmol/L)	4.09±0.49	4.25±0.58	0.1268 a
High density lipoprotein(mmol/L)	1.25±0.29	1.25±0.31	0.9904 a
Low density lipoprotein (mmol/L)	2.65±0.61	3.09±0.78	0.0014 a
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	1.10 (0.70~1.68)	1.28 (0.94~1.82)	0.0844 c
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.64 (4.17~5.00)	5.22 (4.73~5.83)	0.0002 c
Systolic pressure (mmHg)	120.50 (115.00~129.00)	124.00 (119.00~143.00)	0.0813 c
Diastolic pressure (mmHg)	79.00(72.00~85.00)	77.00 (74.00~84.00)	0.6280 c

Note: If the data are normally distributed, description of mean±standard deviation, Student's t test (equal variance) ^a or Welch's t test (unequal variance) ^b were used. If the data are not normally distributed, description of median (interquartile range) and Wilcoxon rank sum test ^c were used.