Table 1.
Epidemiologic and medical characteristics in women with postmenopausal bleeding according to histologic results of thickened endometrium.a
| Characteristics | Benignb n=48 |
Hyperplasia n=24 |
Adenocarcinoma n=18 |
P |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| ||||
| Age (y) | 58.8 (4.2) | 59.3 (3.6) | 61.2 (4.0) | .081 |
| Parity (%) | ||||
| Nulliparous | 18.50 | 14.32 | 20.75 | .17 |
| Parous | 81.45 | 85.70 | 79.25 | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 24.3 (2.3) | 25.6 (4.2) | 28.7 (7.4) | <.001 |
| Age at menopause (y) | 46.2 (1.3) | 48.2 (4.2) | 54.1 (2.1) | .033 |
| Diabetes (%) | 14.8 | 16.2 | 18.75 | .7 |
| Hypertension (%) | 25.9 | 28.5 | 31.2 | .3 |
a
Values are given as mean (SD) or number (percentage).
b
Benign endometrial histology included (endometritis, submucous myoma and endometrial polyp)