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504 females aged 45 years or above with outpatient visits for menopause |
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| Number of individuals having outpatient visits for menopause (N = 504) |
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| Total (N = 504) |
Before WHI (N = 402) |
After WHI (N = 360) |
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| N |
% |
N |
% |
N |
% |
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| Demographic factors |
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| Age |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Marital status |
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| Unmarried |
92 |
18.3 |
76 |
18.9 |
60 |
16.7 |
| Married |
412 |
81.8 |
326 |
81.1 |
300 |
83.3 |
| Economic factors |
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| Employment status |
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| Employed |
169 |
33.5 |
133 |
33.1 |
120 |
33.3 |
| Unemployed |
335 |
66.5 |
269 |
66.9 |
240 |
66.7 |
| Personal income (NT $) |
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| 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 |
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| Illness in the past six months |
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| No |
76 |
15.1 |
65 |
16.2 |
48 |
13.3 |
| Yes |
428 |
84.9 |
337 |
83.8 |
312 |
86.7 |
| Osteoporosis |
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| No |
353 |
70.0 |
294 |
73.1 |
274 |
76.1 |
| Yes |
151 |
30.0 |
108 |
26.9 |
314 |
23.9 |
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| #Total outpatient visits for |
2549 |
1392 |
1157 |
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| menopause-related symptoms |
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| Proportion of visits prescribing |
1999 |
78.4 |
1155 |
83.0 |
844 |
73.0 |
| MHT |
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| Proportion of visits prescribing |
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| MHT (stratified by type of institution) |
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| 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 |
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#: Of these 504 women, 28.6% (n = 144) had NHI outpatient records for menopause only during the six-month period leading up the release of WHI report, 51.2% (n = 258) before and after, and 20.2% (n = 102) during the 6-month period following the WHI period only | ||||||
Huang et al. BMC Public Health 2007 7:56 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-56 |
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