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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hum Biol. 2008 Nov-Dec;20(6):659–662. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.20789

TABLE 3.

Hazard ratios for ovarian cancer according to mothers’ pelvic diameters and age at menarche

Menarche at age 14 years or less
Menarche at age 15 years or more
Hazard
ratio
95% CI No. of
cases
No. of
women
Hazard
ratio
95% CI No. of
cases
No. of
women
Intercristal diameter (cm)
 ≤27.5 1.0 Baseline 1 575 1.0 Baseline 7 610
 27.6–28.5 4.8 0.6–41 5 579 0.4 0.1–1.7 3 570
 28.6–29.5 4.9 0.5–44 4 479 0.6 0.1–2.3 3 469
 >29.5 7.3 0.8–63 5 391 0.4 0.1–1.9 2 397
P for trend 0.01 0.75
 Adjusted for height 0.004 0.65
Interspinous diameter (cm)
 ≤25.0 1.0 Baseline 2 746 1.0 Baseline 6 773
 25.1–26.0 2.1 0.4–13 3 558 0.8 0.2–2.9 4 577
 26.1–27.0 2.8 0.5–17 3 435 0.3 0.0–2.6 1 403
 >27.0 9.5 2.0–46 7 285 1.5 0.4–5.5 4 298
P for trend 0.002 0.63
 Adjusted for height 0.001 0.79
Intertrochanteric diameter (cm)
 ≤30.5 1.0 Baseline 1 583 1.0 Baseline 4 671
 30.6–31.5 3.3 0.3–32 3 547 2.3 0.6–8.7 6 546
 31.6–32.5 8.2 1.0–67 7 486 1.5 0.3–7.1 3 460
 >32.5 5.4 0.6–49 4 399 1.0 0.2–5.4 2 368
P for trend 0.02 0.79
 Adjusted for height 0.003 0.64