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Table 4 Predictors of moderate-to-severe PMS in the studied patients

From: Relation between metabolic syndrome and psychiatric symptoms severity in women with premenstrual syndrome

	Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p
Age	1.0 (0.87–1.15)	0.99	–	–
BMI	1.098 (1.032–1.17)	0.003	1.078 (0.98–1.19)	0.12
Age at menarche	0.75 (0.61–0.9)	0.003	0.7 (0.55–0.9)	0.005
PMS symptoms duration	3.96 (2.8–5.6)	< 0.001	4.45 (3.0–6.6)	< 0.001
MetS	2.097 (1.25–3.52)	0.005	1.67 (1.34–2.53)	0.017

BMI body mass index, MetS metabolic syndrome, PMS premenstrual syndrome, SBP systolic blood pressure

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