Characterization of menopause onset and associated disease risks using large-scale electronic health records
Thakkar, N.; Patil, R.; Levy-Gantt, R.; Hswen, Y.; Agrawal, M.; Zou, J.; Chen, I. Y.
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Menopause affects over one billion women worldwide, yet remains poorly characterized at scale. We apply an ICD-10-based phenotyping algorithm to electronic health records (EHR) from an academic medical center (n=33,444 women aged 35-64) and a safety-net hospital system (n=7,041), yielding one of the most racially and socioeconomically diverse menopause cohorts in the literature. Structured EHR fields underrepresent symptom burden: only 38.8% of patients had any documented symptom via natural language processing, despite an estimated prevalence of 90%. Adverse pregnancy outcomes were associated with earlier menopause onset after adjustment ({beta}=-1.21 years, p=8.7x10-45). Menopausal women showed elevated risk for osteoporosis (hazard ratio of 12.40), rheumatoid arthritis (HR of 2.43), and mental and behavioral disorders (HR 2.38) relative to age-matched men, with divergence at menopause onset. We show that large-scale EHR can characterize menopause at a scale and diversity that prospective enrollment has not achieved.
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