Table 4.

Crude and adjusted odds ratio (OR)s for the association between hot flash (HF) Features and other independent variables in three ethnic populations of women.

HF feature	Ethnic group			p-Value
	Caucasian (N= 160)	African-American (N= 150)	Hispanic (N=87)
Number of HFs per day
≤5/day (reference) crude	1.0	2.08 (1.32,3.26)	1.71 (1.01,2.88)	0.005
Age adjusted	1.0	2.12 (1.35,3.33)	1.74 (1.03, 2.94)	0.004
Age, DM, BMI, smoking	1.0	2.22 (1.38,3.56)	1.85(1.08,3.18)	0.003
Length of each HF episode
≤5 min (reference)	1.0	1.68 (1.06,2.67)	0.91 (0.52,1.61)	0.035
Age adjusteda	1.0	1.60 (1.01, 2.55)	0.86 (0.49,1.53)	0.048
Age, DM, BMI, smoking, PAa,b,c	1.0	1.10 (0.66,1.83)	0.71 (0.38,1.32)	0.362
Duration of HF experience
≤2 years (reference)	1.0	1.05 (0.65,1.69)	0.77 (0.45,1.33)	0.517
Age adjusteda	1.0	1.25 (0.76,2.07)	0.87 (0.49,1.54)	0.446
Age, DM, BMI, smokinga,c	1.0	1.17 (0.69,1.96)	0.95(0.53,1.71)	0.768

^aAge significant at 0.05 level.

^bBMI significant at 0.05 level.

^cSmoking significant at 0.05 level.

DM – diabetes; BMI – body mass index; PA – physical activity.