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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Menopause. 2018 Sep;25(9):1011–1019. doi: 10.1097/GME.0000000000001112

Table 4.

Bivariate correlations between vascular measures and menopausal symptoms, quality of life and depression

Variable Carotid Artery Compliance P-value FMD P-value
Psychological – frequency −0.04 0.66 −0.06 0.53
Psychological – severity −0.02 0.84 −0.03 0.75
Vasosomatic – frequency −0.18 0.04 −0.18 0.04
Vasosomatic - severity −0.14 0.12 −0.13 0.14
General somatic - frequency −0.27 0.002a −0.25 0.003a
General somatic - severity −0.25 0.003a −0.25 0.004a
Quality of Life
Occupational 0.12 0.16 −0.00 0.97
Health-related 0.17 0.06 0.02 0.81
Emotional 0.10 0.26 0.13 0.17
Sexual 0.16 0.07 0.15 0.09
Total 0.23 0.01 0.11 0.21
Depression
CES-D score −0.08 0.35 −0.03 0.74
a

Adjusted P-value <0.05 using the Adaptive Holm method (28).

FMD, flow-mediated dilation; IMT, intima-medial thickness; CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale