Risk Patterns and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women Using Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although risk factors often co-occur, previous studies examining lifestyle or psychosocial factors often treat these factors as individual predictors of health. This study aims to identify the underlying subgroups of women characterized by distinct lifestyle and psychosocial risk patterns and to investigate the prospective associations between risk patterns and mortality among postmenopausal women.

Methods

A total of 64,812 postmenopausal women aged 50-79 years without prevalent diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer at baseline (1993-1998) were followed until 2019 with a mean follow-up duration of 14.6 (SD=6.4) years. Latent class analysis was used to identify the latent classes of women with homogeneous combinations of lifestyle and psychosocial variable

SUBMITTER: Luo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8542102 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature