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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patient sample

From: Development and validation of a case definition for problematic menopause in primary care electronic medical records

Baseline characteristics

Chart review cohort

(N = 2,776)

CPCSSN 2020 dataset

(N = 190,392)

Age, n (%)

  

45–49 years

802 (28.9)

58,636 (30.8)

50–54 years

806 (29.0)

57,630 (30.3)

55–60 years

1168 (42.1)

74,126 (38.9)

Urban residence, n (%)

2,341 (84.4)

150,915 (79.3)

Number of chronic conditions*, n (%)

  

0

966 (34.7)

72,509 (38.0)

1

765 (27.6)

43,743 (23.0)

2

421 (15.2)

28,097 (14.8)

3+

624 (22.5)

46,043 (24.2)

  1. * Based on 11 of the conditions that CPCSSN has developed and validated definitions for: chronic kidney disease, COPD, dementia, depression, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, epilepsy, Herpes Zoster, hypertension, osteoarthritis, Parkinson’s disease [11,12,13,14]