To determine whether the impact of menopausal stage on high anxiety over 10 yearsdiffered between women with and without high baseline anxiety, an interaction term ofmenopausal stage with presence/absence of high baseline anxiety was added to the fullyadjusted model for all women. Results showed that the interaction was significant at p=.001,Bromberger et al. Page 5Menopause. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 May 01.NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscriptindicating that the odds of high anxiety during and after the menopausal transition differedbetween women with and without high baseline anxiety. Therefore, final results are based onseparate analyses of these groups as described below and are shown in Tables 4 and 5.