Table 1.
Sample characteristics
| Women aged 40- 60 w/ at least 1 cortisol sample | No hot flashes during past 2 weeks | Hot flashes during past 2 weeks | P-value across hot flash comparison | |
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| N=109 | N=58a | N=42a | ||
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| Age Mean (s.d.) | 49.2 (5.7) | 47.5 (6.0) | 51.8 (3.9) | p<0.001 |
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| Race/ethnicity | ||||
| White | 44% | 48% | 38% | |
| Black | 56% | 52% | 62% | p=0.311 |
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| BMI Mean (s.d.) | 30.1 (6.8) | 29.8 (6.4) | 29.8 (6.6) | p=0.987 |
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| Menopausal status % | ||||
| Pre or peri | 56% | 68% | 38.5% | |
| post | 44% | 32% | 61.5% | p=0.005 |
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| Symptom score (scale of 0-20) | ||||
| Mean (s.d.) | 6.2 (4.6) | 4.7 (3.5) | 8.3 (5.1) | p=0.001 |
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| Smoking % | ||||
| yes | 21% | 84% | 71% | |
| no | 79% | 16% | 29% | p=0.124 |
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| Depressed mood % | ||||
| yes | 36% | 28% | 46% | |
| no | 64% | 72% | 54% | p=0.055 |
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| Trouble sleeping % | ||||
| yes | 45% | 39% | 52% | |
| no | 55% | 61% | 48% | p=0.173 |
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| Hormone Therapy use % | ||||
| yes | 11% | 9% | 15% | |
| no | 89% | 91% | 85% | p=0.386 |
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Nine women did not answer the symptom survey.