Table 2.
Comorbidities among women diagnosed with endometriosis compared to matched controls.
| Patient Characteristics (31 December 2015) | Endometriosis (n = 6146) |
Controls (n = 24,572) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Infertility | All ages 15–55 | 2269 (36.9%) | 3790 (15.4%) |
| 15–30 | 80 (12.4%) | 92 (3.6%) | |
| 30–34 | 218 (30.2%) | 356 (12.3%) | |
| 35–39 | 538 (45.3%) | 866 (18.3%) | |
| 40–44 | 808 (49.9%) | 1403 (21.7%) | |
| Conditions with overlapping symptoms | IBD | 113 (1.8%) | 262 (1.1%) |
| IBS | 92 (1.5%) | 149 (0.6%) | |
| Appendicitis | 114 (1.9%) | 188 (0.8%) | |
| Chronic comorbidities | CVD | 222 (3.6%) | 551 (2.2%) |
| Hypertension | 467 (7.6%) | 1531 (6.2%) | |
| Diabetes | 155 (2.5%) | 550 (2.2%) | |
| Cancer | 240 (3.9%) | 703 (2.9%) | |
| CKD | 144 (2.3%) | 389 (1.6%) | |
| CCI | Mean ± SD | 0.39 ± 0.82 | 0.29 ± 0.68 |
| 1 | 912 (14.8%) | 3023 (12.3%) | |
| 2 | 396 (6.4%) | 1299 (5.3%) | |
| ≥3 | 189 (3.1%) | 408 (1.7%) | |
| Smoking | Never smoked | 5059 (82.3%) | 20,248 (82.4%) |
| Ever smoked | 933 (15.2%) | 3245 (13.2%) | |
| Missing | 154 (2.5%) | 1079 (4.4%) | |
All p values are <0.05, except for diabetes and COPD. IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; IBS, irritable bowel syndrome; CVD, cardiovascular disease; CKD, chronic kidney disease; CCI, Deyo–Charlson comorbidity index.