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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am Heart J. 2012 Mar 29;163(4):729–734. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2012.01.010

Table III.

Relation of age at menopause to 10 year risk of atrial fibrillation.

Variable Hazard Ratio 95% CI P
Per standard deviation of menopausal age
Menopausal age 0.94 0.83 – 1.06 0.29
Multivariable-adjusted 0.97 0.86 – 1.09 0.60
Early Menopause (<45) v. Late Menopause (>53)
Menopausal age 1.20 0.74 – 1.94 0.52
Multivariable-adjusted 1.05 0.64 – 1.73 0.84
Early Menopause (<45) v. Mid Menopause (45 to 53)
Menopausal age 1.38 0.93 – 2.04 0.11
Multivariable-adjusted 1.15 0.76 – 1.72 0.51
*

The 2,662 baseline examinations correspond to pooled examinations from 1,809 unique individuals.

The multivariable covariates are body mass index, hypertension, cardiac murmur, prevalent heart failure, and PR interval.