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Secondary outcomes included comorbidity-specific comparisons between sexes across age strata and trajectory-based analyses (OR trajectories and incidence-ratio summaries).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Women were diagnosed later than men (mean age 59.1 vs 56.0 years; mean difference 3.1 years, 95%\u2009CI 3.03 to 3.17). Hypercholesterolaemia diagnoses in women rose sharply around ages 50\u201355\u2009and remained higher than in men at older ages. Comorbidity patterns differed by sex across age strata: compared with men, women aged \u226550 years had higher frequencies of osteoporosis (42\u2009255 vs 2623), anxiety disorder (94\u2009916 vs 31 374) and hypertension (147\u2009538 vs 91 532), with statistically significant differences for these comparisons (p&lt;0.001).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Menopause age is a pivotal period associated with a shift towards higher hypercholesterolaemia diagnosis rates and a greater burden of specific comorbidities in women. 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