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

Table 4 Final 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	0.16	0.02	< 0.001
β₂ Age (−47.6) years	−0.01	0.003	0.001
β₃ Urinary Estrone (Log¹⁰)	−0.04	0.02	0.040
β₄ Anxiety	0.05	0.01	< 0.001
Random effects
b₁ Intercept σ₁		0.26
b₂ Age (−47.6) years σ₂		0.02
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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