Adverse childhood experiences are associated with increased risk of hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy: A national retrospective cohort study of women in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) and the risk of hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy in a national sample of women in England.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A stratified random sample of households across England.

Population

2648 women aged ≥55 years in 2007 from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) were included in the bilateral oophorectomy analyses and 2622 in the hysterectomy analyses.

Methods

Logistic and multinomial logistic regression analyses of the associations between categories of the ACE summary score (0, 1, 2, ≥3 ACE), eight individual ACE, and hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy.

Results

615 women had undergone hysterectomy and 259 women bilateral oophor

SUBMITTER: Demakakos P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9250543 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature