Causes of death and associated risk factors among climacteric women from Southern Brazil: a population based-study

Table 3 Crude mortality hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for survival in 358 women from a South Brazilian cohort between 1995-2010

Predicting factor	HR	95% CI	p
Age (years)	1.141	1.051-1.239	0.002
Years at school¹	0.888	0.792-0.997	0.044
0 – 4	5.240	1.131-24.275	0.034
5 – 8	1.455	0.243-8.709	0.682
9 – 11	1.869	0.312-11.184	0.493
White skin color (yes)	0.424	0.137-1.308	0.135
Menopausal status²
Perimenopause	2.495	0.729	0.145
Postmenopause	16.738	3.644	<0.001
Hysterectomy	11.788	1.145	0.038
Smoker³ (yes)	2.465	0.951-6.389	0.063
Alcohol intake⁴
Social Drinker	0.536	0.199-1.440	0.216
Abusers	0.977	0.120-7.942	0.983
Alcohol intake (10 g)	1.193	0.983-1.447	0.074
Hypertension (yes)	1.584	0.601-4.176	0.353
Diabetes (yes)	10.439	3.367-32.367	<0.001
Dyslipidemia (yes)	1.828	0.418-7.994	0.423
HT (yes)	2.856	0.996-8.187	0.051
LPA^5,a
1000-1999 cal/sem	0.867	0.159-4.737	0.870
<1000 cal/sem	0.520	0.115-2.346	0.395
BMI (kg/m²)	0.978	0.888-1.077	0.649
WHR ≥ 0.85^a	3.629	1.278-10.301	0.015
WC ≥ 88 cm^a	1.021	0.986-1.058	0.236
TC ≥ 200 mg/dL^a	1.078	0.404-2.872	0.881
HDL-c <50 mg/dL^a	0.472	0.152-1.464	0.194
LDL-c ≥ 160 mg/dL^a	0.790	0.179-3.481	0.755
TG ≥ 150 mg/dL^a	0.800	0.261-2.453	0.696
GLU ≥ 126 mg/dL^a	3.056	0.694-13.460	0.140

¹reference: >12 years at school. ²reference: premenopause. ³reference: nonsmoker. ⁴reference: nondrinker. ⁵reference: ≥ 2000 cal/sem. ^aData from 2003 interviews. P-value significance: ≤0.05. BMI: body mass index; GLU: levels of plasma glucose; HDL-c: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HT: hormonal therapy; LDL-c: light-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LPA: Leisure physical activity in the last year; MET: metabolic equivalent; TC: plasma total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; WC: waist circumference; WHR: waist-to-hip ratio.

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