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Table 3 Self-reported HRQoL of all patients analyzed

From: Association of anemia and mineral and bone disorder with health-related quality of life in Asian pre-dialysis patients

HRQoL scales

No. of patients

Mean (SD)

Meanb (Joshi et al. 2010) [21]

Kidney disease-specific

 Symptoms

310

85.4 (17.38)

N/A

 Effects of Kidney Disease

309

85.4 (19.00)

N/A

 Burden of Kidney Disease

304

59.7 (33.99)

N/A

 Work Status

311

49.2 (35.35)

N/A

 Cognitive Function

311

85.2 (18.14)

N/A

 Quality of Social Interaction

311

83.7 (18.85)

N/A

 Sexual Function

113

78.1 (28.67)

N/A

 Sleep

311

67.9 (21.79)

N/A

 Social Support

311

80.1 (22.69)

N/A

SF-36 Scoresa

 Physical functioning (PF)

310

45.3 (10.81)

47.47

 Role-physical (RP)

309

45.6 (11.75)

44.53

 Bodily pain (BP)

311

48.9 (12.37)

49.95

 General health (GH)

311

40.1 (13.10)

38.83

 Vitality (VT)

311

45.4 (13.06)

46.53

 Social Functioning (SF)

311

50.5 (11.98)

45.22

 Role-emotional (RE)

309

48.8 (10.91)

49.91

 Mental health (MH)

311

52.7 (11.82)

49.13

EQ-5D utility

309

0.8 (0.24)

N/A

EQ-VAS

296

69.0 (18.70)

N/A

  1. aIndividual scales of the SF-36 are normalized against the Singapore general population, which has a mean score of 50
  2. bNorm-based scores constructed from the raw mean scores reported by Joshi et al. [21] N/A – Not available