Table 1.

Comparison between how the timing of menopause influences the risk of CVD and glaucoma in women

% of Women in population	CVD		Glaucoma
	54% (Garcia et al. 2016)		59% (Quigley and Broman 2006; Vajaranant and Pasquale 2012)
Stage entering menopause	Directionality of change Relative risk		Directionality of change Relative risk
Early menopause	Higher risk	2 (Newson 2018; Wellons et al. 2012; Young and Cho 2019)	Higher risk	2.5–3 (Hulsman et al. 2001; Lam et al. 2014)
Normal menopause	Reference	1	Reference	1
Late menopause	Lower risk	0.88 (Muka et al. 2016; Zhu et al. 2019b)	Lower risk	0.5 (Pasquale et al. 2007)