Sex hormones and physical function among the Chinese oldest-old and centenarian women

Table 1 Comparison of characteristics between oldest-old women and centenarian women in all the participants

Variables	Oldest-old women (N = 468)	Centenarian women (N = 758)	All (N = 1226)	P
Age (year)^a	84.0 (82.0, 89.0)	102.0 (101.0, 104.0)	100.5 (87.0, 103.0)	< 0.001
Han ethnicity, n (%)^b	414 (88.5)	672 (88.7)	1086 (88.6)	0.918
Illiteracy, n (%)^b	432 (92.3)	732 (96.6)	1164 (94.9)	0.001
Smoker, n (%)^b	13 (2.8)	52 (6.9)	65 (5.3)	0.002
Drinker, n (%)^b	80 (17.1)	103 (13.6)	183 (14.9)	0.094
E2 (pmol/L)^a	18.4 (18.4, 36.9)	33.2 (18.4, 56.1)	22.9 (18.4, 38.6)	< 0.001
T (nmol/L)^a	0.4 (0.2, 0.9)	0.4 (0.2, 0.7)	0.4 (0.2, 0.8)	0.100
E2/T^a	55.8 (23.9, 141.5)	95.6 (48.7, 204.4)	80.0 (37.1, 204.2)	< 0.001
FSH (mIU/mL)^a	82.3 (65.9, 100.2)	81.4 (61.0, 101.0)	82.3 (62.7, 100.4)	0.211
LH (mIU/mL)^a	36.3 (28.4, 42.7)	36.2 (28.4, 47.1)	36.3 (28.4, 45.7)	0.193
ADL^a	100.0 (91.0, 100.0)	85.0 (60.0, 95.0)	90.0 (70.0, 100.0)	< 0.001

ADL activity of daily living; E2 estradiol; E2/T estradiol/testosterone; FSH follicle-stimulating hormone; LH luteinizing hormone; T testosterone
^aContinuous variables with skewed distributions were presented with medians (interquartile ranges) and compared with Mann–Whitney U tests
^bCategorical variables were presented with numbers (percentages) and compared with Chi-square tests

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