Personal, reproductive, and familial characteristics associated with bilateral oophorectomy in premenopausal women: A population-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We investigated the association of personal, reproductive, and familial characteristics with bilateral oophorectomy performed for nonmalignant indications in a US population.

Study design

In an established cohort study, we used the records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP http://www.rochesterproject.org) to identify 1653 premenopausal women who underwent bilateral oophorectomy in Olmsted County, Minnesota between 1988 and 2007 for a nonmalignant indication. Each woman was matched by age (±1 year) to a population-based referent woman who had not undergone bilateral oophorectomy as of the index date. We used case-control analyses to investigate several characteristics associated with bilateral oophorectomy. Odds ratios and their 95% confiden

SUBMITTER: Rocca WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231412 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature