Table 2 504 females aged 45 years or above with outpatient visits for menopause
From: Changes of the prescription of hormone therapy in menopausal women: An observational study in Taiwan
Number of individuals having outpatient visits for menopause (N = 504) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total (N = 504) | Before WHI (N = 402) | After WHI (N = 360) | ||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Demographic factors | ||||||
Age | ||||||
45–55 | 292 | 57.9 | 232 | 57.7 | 214 | 59.4 |
55–65 | 142 | 28.2 | 111 | 27.6 | 103 | 28.6 |
65+ | 70 | 13.9 | 59 | 14.7 | 43 | 11.9 |
Education | ||||||
None | 70 | 13.9 | 53 | 13.2 | 48 | 13.3 |
Elementary school or lower | 245 | 48.6 | 194 | 48.3 | 170 | 47.2 |
Junior high school | 63 | 12.5 | 56 | 13.9 | 48 | 13.3 |
Senior high school | 83 | 16.5 | 63 | 15.7 | 61 | 16.9 |
Undergraduate or graduate | 43 | 8.5 | 36 | 9.0 | 33 | 9.2 |
Missing | 0 | |||||
Marital status | ||||||
Unmarried | 92 | 18.3 | 76 | 18.9 | 60 | 16.7 |
Married | 412 | 81.8 | 326 | 81.1 | 300 | 83.3 |
Economic factors | ||||||
Employment status | ||||||
Employed | 169 | 33.5 | 133 | 33.1 | 120 | 33.3 |
Unemployed | 335 | 66.5 | 269 | 66.9 | 240 | 66.7 |
Personal income (NT $) | ||||||
None | 197 | 39.1 | 157 | 39.1 | 139 | 38.6 |
<4,999 | 56 | 11.1 | 44 | 11.0 | 38 | 10.6 |
5,000~19,999 | 104 | 20.6 | 86 | 21.4 | 79 | 21.9 |
20,000~39,999 | 87 | 17.3 | 64 | 15.9 | 64 | 17.8 |
>= 40,000 | 55 | 10.9 | 47 | 11.7 | 36 | 10.0 |
Missing | 5 | 1.0 | 4 | 1.0 | 4 | 1.1 |
Health Status | ||||||
Illness in the past six months | ||||||
No | 76 | 15.1 | 65 | 16.2 | 48 | 13.3 |
Yes | 428 | 84.9 | 337 | 83.8 | 312 | 86.7 |
Osteoporosis | ||||||
No | 353 | 70.0 | 294 | 73.1 | 274 | 76.1 |
Yes | 151 | 30.0 | 108 | 26.9 | 314 | 23.9 |
#Total outpatient visits for | 2549 | 1392 | 1157 | |||
menopause-related symptoms | ||||||
Proportion of visits prescribing | 1999 | 78.4 | 1155 | 83.0 | 844 | 73.0 |
MHT | ||||||
Proportion of visits prescribing | ||||||
MHT (stratified by type of institution) | ||||||
Academic medical center | 475 | 58.7 | 278 | 65.2 | 196 | 49.0 |
Metropolitan hospital | 627 | 82.9 | 342 | 84.8 | 285 | 80.7 |
Local community hospital | 492 | 81.1 | 244 | 87.7 | 248 | 74.6 |
Physician clinic | 955 | 83.9 | 527 | 89.0 | 428 | 77.6 |
Proportion of visits served by obstetricians or gynecologists | 1295 | 50.8 | 712 | 51.2 | 583 | 50.4 |