Table III.
Relation of age at menopause to 10 year risk of atrial fibrillation.
Variable | Hazard Ratio | 95% CI | P |
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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.