Table 4 Sensitivity analyses.

From: Association between current relative fat mass and history of female infertility based on the NHANES survey

Methods

Participants

Infertile (no/yes)

RFMQ

OR (95% CI)

p for trend

Method 1

3912

3395/517

Q1

ref

 

Q2

1.29 (0.95, 1.76)

 

Q3

1.37 (1.00, 1.88)

 

Q4

2.38 (1.76, 3.23)

< 0.001

Method 2

3071

2694/377

Q1

ref

 

Q2

2.27 (1.34, 3.84)

 

Q3

2.32 (1.33, 4.06)

 

Q4

3.66 (2.18, 6.15)

< 0.001

Method 3

5314

4685/629

Q1

ref

 

Q2

1.42 (0.96, 2.12)

 

Q3

1.56 (1.10, 2.21)

 

Q4

2.41 (1.63, 3.58)

< 0.001

  1. Method 1: Dataset (All missing values removed), unweighted;
  2. Method 2: Dataset (Original dataset excluding those aged > 40 years), weighted;
  3. Method 3: Dataset (Following imputation of missing values), weighted.