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Am Fam Physician. 2024;109(2):106

Incorrect Statistic. In the article “Preventing CVD in Women: Common Questions and Answers” (December 2023, p. 595), the numbers of cardiovascular events occurring in relation to age at onset of menopause were inadvertently listed in the wrong order in the first paragraph of the Evidence Summary in the Menstrual Characteristics section (p. 597). The second sentence of the paragraph should have read, “Compared with menopause onset at 55 years or older, CVD events occur more often in those who have an earlier onset, with 2.6 events per 1,000 person-years for onset at 45 to 49 years of age, 3 events per 1,000 person-years for onset at 40 to 45 years of age, and 4 events per 1,000 person-years for onset before 40 years of age.” The online version of the article has been corrected.

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