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Fig. 1 | Women's Midlife Health

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From: Contribution of common chronic conditions to midlife physical function decline: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation

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Change in physical function with the development of a new condition. Note: Solid grey lines represent women who did not develop the condition of interest, while the dashed black lines represent women who did. Sample sizes vary between models because only women without the condition at baseline were included. The change-point for each model was set at the median time-point when the condition was developed. Depressive symptoms indicate clinically relevant depressive symptoms, defined as Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale score of ≥16 points. Changes in physical function in conjunction with chronic condition development were statistically significant (drop in physical function and/or change in slope) for all conditions except for depressive symptoms and osteoporosis (see Table 4)

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