Table 1:
Health-related behaviors and ovarian cancer risk factors by trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms at cohort enrollment, Nurses’ Health Study II, 1989 (N=49 443)
| Total | No trauma | Trauma, no PTSD symptoms |
1-3 PTSD symptoms |
4-5 PTSD symptoms |
6-7 PTSD symptoms |
Trauma, PTSD symptoms unknown |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | 49 443 | 15 378 | 9 482 | 9 259 | 3 827 | 2 225 | 9 248 | |
| Age, years | Mean (SD) | 34.6 (4.6) | 33.9 (4.8) | 35.4 (4.5) | 35.1 (4.4) | 35.2 (4.4) | 35.1 (4.3) | 34.2 (4.6) |
| Race, white | % (N) | 95.7 (47258) | 95.6 (9067) | 95.6 (9067) | 95.0 (8787) | 95.3 (3648) | 94.9 (2112) | 96.0 (8878) |
| Change in BMI since age 18 | Mean (SD) | 2.6 (3.7) | 2.4 (3.5) | 2.7 (3.7) | 2.8 (3.6) | 3.0 (4.0) | 2.9 (4.2) | 2.6 (3.7) |
| Family history of breast or ovarian cancer | % (N) | 5.8 (2858) | 5.8 (891) | 5.7 (526) | 5.7 (527) | 7.1 (271) | 6.2 (138) | 5.4 (498) |
| Smoking, current | % (N) | 11.2 (5554) | 9.4 (1439) | 10.9 (1037) | 12.0 (1109) | 12.3 (470) | 16.5 (368) | 12.2 (1131) |
| Physical activity, <3 metabolic equivalent hours/week | % (N) | 14.1 (6964) | 14.4 (2212) | 14.5 (1380) | 14.3 (1326) | 13.0 (499) | 15.6 (346) | 13.0 (1199) |
| Parity, none | % (N) | 30.0 (14810) | 35.1 (5394) | 23.2 (2201) | 27.3 (2523) | 27.8 (1064) | 31.4 (699) | 31.7 (2928) |
| Tubal ligation, ever | % (N) | 16.2 (8003) | 13.9 (2133) | 18.3 (1737) | 18.1 (1674) | 16.7 (640) | 17.8 (396) | 15.3 (1418) |
| Oral contraceptive use, never | % (N) | 16.5 (8141) | 19.2 (2954) | 16.1 (1524) | 14.6 (1356) | 13.7 (523) | 13.2 (293) | 15.9 (1466) |
| Menopause status, postmenopausal | % (N) | 0.4 (203) | 0.4 (62) | 0.4 (36) | 0.5 (43) | 0.4 (17) | 0.4 (9) | 0.4 (34) |
| Hormone use among postmenopausal women, any | % (N) | 63.1 (128) | 59.4 (38) | 75.0 (27) | 51.2 (22) | 58.8 (10) | 66.7 (6) | 73.5 (25) |