Table 1.

Characteristics of the Women’s Interagency HIV Study participants by menopausal status.

	Pre-menopausal (N=170)	Post-menopausal (N=262)	P-value^a	Age-adjusted P-value^b
Age, y (mean ± SD)	44.6 ± 5.6	57.4 ± 5.9	<0.0001
Site (%)			0.77	0.09
Bronx	46.5	49.6
Brooklyn	27.6	27.1
Chicago	25.9	23.3
Race (%)			0.20	0.29
Black/African-American	58.8	63.7
White	4.7	7.3
Other or multi-racial	36.5	29.0
Hispanic (%)	32.4	23.3	0.05	0.30
Country of birth (%)			0.004	0.07
U.S.	73.5	84
Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories	3.5	5.3
Other countries	22.9	10.7
Education (%)			0.96	0.28
Grade 6 or less	1.2	2.3
Grade 7-11	40.6	41.2
Completed high school	30.0	29.8
Some college	22.9	22.5
Completed college or any graduate school	4.7	4.2
Missing	0.6	0
Employed (%)	47.1	23.3	<0.0001	0.007
Alcohol use (%)			0.01	0.72
Abstainer	45.3	61.1
>0-7 drinks/wk	44.7	32.8
>7-12 drinks/wk	4.7	3.1
>12 drinks/wk	5.3	3.1
Cigarette smoking history (%)			0.005	0.04
Never smoker	28.8	17.9
Current smoker	40.6	37.8
Former smoker	30.6	44.3
Recreational drug use (%)	30.6	17.2	0.001	0.86
Hormonal contraceptive use (%)	6.5	0.4	0.0002	0.46
HIV-positive (%)	58.2	69.5	0.02	0.73
Detectable HIV viral load^c (% among HIV+)	28.3	21.4	0.24	0.75
HIV therapy (% among HIV+)	90.9	96.2	0.10	0.43
HCV antibody detectable (%)	7.1	34.0	<0.0001	0.19
BMI, kg/m² (mean ± SD)	32.5 ± 8.1	30.4 ± 7.6	0.004	0.02
Diabetes (%)	17.6	34.7	0.0001	0.17
Hypertension (%)	36.5	65.3	<0.0001	0.16

P-values from Wilcoxon rank-sum test for continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables.

P-values are from likelihood ratio tests comparing a logistic model with age and the variable of interest to a model with age alone.

Lower limit of detection = 20 copies/mL