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© The Author(s) 2025. Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in Table 6 and Table S5. The percentage for the every used oral contraceptives value for the NIH-AARP study has been corrected to 39%. Women-specific characteristics by cohort (n = 1,546,217)1 Cohort Age at menarche ≤ 12 years Parous Age at first birth ≥ 25 years Postmenopausal Age at menopause ≥ 50 years2 Ever used oral contraceptive Ever used HRT Adventist Health Study-2 51.4 83.1 31.7 77.0 64.5 58.8 39.4 CARRS-1 12.2 94.1 - 36.9 19.7 3.5 - CARRS-2 12.9 93.8 - 41.9 23.4 6.9 EPIC-Oxford 39.8 61.0 38.2 40.2 54.8 73.7 18.2 Oxford Vegetarian Study - 47.5 29.4 26.6 - 55.3 - Tzu Chi Health Study 8.6 91.8 - 63.0 54.2 15.7 19.6 UK Women’s Cohort Study 41.6 77.2 44.8 60.9 48.0 66.9 27.2 China Kadoorie Biobank 5.5 98.7 32.5 57.2 43.1 9.8 - Million Women Study 38.8 88.4 36.4 100 56.8 61.3 53.4 NIH-AARP 48.6 83.7 23.5 100 39.6 39.0 52.9 UK Biobank 37.6 81.2 47.1 77.8 63.3 81.1 37.7 33.5 87.3 35.3 84.2 52.1 50.6 37.8 Abbreviations: CARRS, Centre for cArdiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia; HRT, hormone replacement therapy; EPIC, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition; NIH-AARP, National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study. 1Values are % of women within cohort. 2Postmenopausal women only. “-” indicates that no information was available for this variable in the specified cohort. Baseline characteristics of women by cohort1 Total AHS-2 CARRS-1 CARRS-2 EPIC-Oxford OVS TCHS UKWCS CKB MWS NIH-AARP UK Biobank N 1,546,217 42,194 6,372 5,065 41,335 6,480 3,329 30,148 300,909 639,026 215,905 255,454 Living with partner Yes 1,145,967 (74.1) 27,503 (65.2) 5,671 (89.0) 4,332 (85.5) 27,614 (66.8) 3,497 (54.0) 2824 (84.8) 22,282 (73.9) 267,799 (89.0) 511,789 (80.1) 95,749 (44.3) 176,907 (69.3) No 336,711 (21.8) 13,937 (33.0) 701 (11.0) 733 (14.5) 13,649 (33.0) 2,934 (45.3) 504 (15.1) 7,415 (24.6) 33,110 (11.0) 118,337 (18.5) 118,140 (54.7) 27,251 (10.7) Unknown 63,539 (4.1) 754 (1.8) 0 (0.00) 0 ... |