Menopause, postmenopausal hormone use and serum uric acid levels in US women – The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Table 1 Characteristics of women in the NHANES III according to menopausal status

Variable	Premenopausal	Natural menopause	Surgical menopause	All participants
Participants, n	4156	3047	459	7662
Age (years)	34	63	58	46
Body mass index (kg/m²)	26	27	27	26
Diuretic use (%)	2	18	15	8
Hypertension (%)	14	43	37	25
Alcohol intake (servings/day)	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2
Total meat intake (servings/day)	1.0	0.9	0.9	1.0
Seafood intake (servings/day)	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Dairy food intake (servings/day)	1.5	1.4	1.4	1.4
Sweetened soft drink intake (servings/day)	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.4
Coffee intake (servings/day)	0.9	1.3	1.1	1.0
Uric acid drug use^a (%)	0.0	1.3	0.5	0.5
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.9	1.0	1.0	1.0

Data are presented incorporating sample weights and adjusted for clusters and strata of the complex sample design of NHANES III. ^aAllopurinol and uricosuric agents.

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