Table 2.

Predictors of week 16 endpoint scores for individual arms, after controlling for baseline scores

	Placebo Group n = 46						Active Treatment Group n = 47
	Flushes		Greene Climacteric Scale		HDI-17		Flushes		Greene Climacteric Scale		HDI-17
	β (SE)	p-value	β (SE)	p-value	β (SE)	p-value	β (SE)	p-value	β (SE)	p-value	β (SE)	p-value
Age at trial start	0.03 (0.28)	0.93	-0.26 (0.24)	0.28	-0.39 (0.17)	0.03	0.38 (0.32)	0.25	-0.21 (0.25)	0.41	0.23 (0.19)	0.24
Previous Herb Med effective	-10.9 (0.07)	0.63	-3.07 (1.84)	0.10	-3.14 (1.37)	0.03	-1.80 (3.04)	0.56	-4.46 (2.40)	0.07	-2.27 (1.88)	0.23
Attitude to menopause	-0.63 (2.18)	0.77	0.66 (1.88)	0.73	-0.24 (1.45)	0.87	-3.30 (2.97)	0.27	-4.54 (2.09)	0.04	-3.16 (1.60)	0.055
GCS score, study entry	-0.53 (0.17)	0.003	-0.43 (0.16)	0.012	-0.38 (0.13)	0.007	0.23 (0.26)	0.37	0.38 (0.26)	0.15	0.36 (0.18)	0.03
GCS anxiety, study entry	-0.97 (0.44)	0.03	-0.82 (0.39)	0.04	-0.33 (0.32)	<.001	1.16 (0.47)	0.016	0.65 (0.44)	0.14	0.68 (0.31)	0.02
Change in GCS scores during run-in	-0.02 (0.04)	0.59	-0.15 (0.06)	0.013	-0.07 (0.02)	0.005	-0.04 (0.08)	0.68	0.13 (0.08)	0.13	-0.07 (0.05)	0.15

Unstandardised β-coefficient (SE)

Results obtained from hierarchical linear regression analyses