Abdominal pain during the menopause transition and early postmenopause: observations from the Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study

Table 3 Preliminary multivariate mixed-effects model for abdominal pain severity with age as predictor and significant covariates simultaneously entered (n = 131; observations = 4890)

	Beta Coefficient ^a	Standard Error/Standard Deviation	P-value
Fixed effects
β₁ Intercept	0.18	0.03	< 0.001
β₂ Age (−47.6) years	−0.01	0.003	< 0.001
β₃ Perceived Stress	−0.01	0.007	0.040
β₄ Urinary Estrone (Log ¹⁰)	−0.03	0.02	0.090
β₅ Urinary Testosterone (Log ¹⁰)	−0.02	0.01	0.080
β₆ Tension	0.002	0.01	0.830
β₇ Anxiety	0.06	0.01	< 0.001
Random effects
b₁ Intercept σ₁		0.26
b₂ Age (−47.6) years σ₂		0.01
b₃ Residual σ₃		0.35

^a The beta coefficient is a measure of the change in abdominal pain severity for every one unit of change in each respective predictor variable

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