Eating disorders and their relationship with menopausal phases among a sample of middle-aged Lebanese women

BMC Women's Health

Table 4 Multivariate analyses: Logistic regressions taking the dichotomous scores of the eating disorders scales as dependent variables

	Crude results				Adjusted results
	p	aOR	Confidence interval		p	aOR	Confidence interval
	p	aOR	Lower	Upper	p	aOR	Lower	Upper
Presence versus absence of restrained eating
Perimenopause versus premenopause*	0.758	0.96	0.71	1.28	0.825	0.97	0.71	1.31
Postmenopause versus premenopause*	0.371	0.87	0.64	1.18	0.707	0.92	0.61	1.39
Presence versus absence of Binge eating score
Perimenopause versus premenopause*	0.005	1.62	1.16	2.26	0.04	1.45	1.02	2.06
Postmenopause versus premenopause*	0.601	1.10	0.77	1.59	0.812	0.94	0.58	1.53
Presence versus absence of Orthorexia nervosa (ORTO-15 scale)
Perimenopause versus postmenopause*	0.573	1.26	0.56	2.85	0.549	1.29	0.56	3.01
Postmenopause versus premenopause*	0.233	1.79	0.69	4.68	0.269	1.97	0.59	6.58
Presence versus absence of Orthorexia nervosa (TOS scale)
Perimenopause versus premenopause*	0.272	0.85	0.63	1.14	0.300	0.85	0.62	1.16
Postmenopause versus premenopause*	0.938	1.01	0.74	1.38	0.524	1.14	0.76	1.71
Presence versus absence of Orthorexia nervosa (DOS scale)
Perimenopause versus premenopause*	0.261	0.84	0.61	1.14	0.513	0.90	0.65	1.24
Postmenopause versus premenopause*	0.513	0.90	0.65	1.24	0.908	0.98	0.63	1.50

*Reference group; Numbers in bold indicate significant p values. Note: In the adjusted model, the covariates were age, monthly income, body mass index, marital status, education level

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