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Table 4 Comparison of EQ-VAS Scores between Subgroups with Different Health Status: by Age Group for Patients Completing the Chinese EQ-5D-3L

From: The discriminative power of the EuroQol visual analog scale is sensitive to survey language in Singapore

  

< 70 years (N = 211)

 

70 years or older (N = 124)

 

N

Mean (SD)

Adjusted difference*

(p-value)

N

Mean (SD)

Adjusted difference*

(p-value)

BMI (kg/m2)

      

< 30

173

70.2 (16.7)

0.0

107

67.1 (16.0)

-5.1

≥ 30

32

70.8 (16.7)

(0.997)

10

70.4 (21.3)

(0.354)

Duration of DM

      

< 10 years

130

70.6 (17.6)

1.3

50

67.4 (17.0)

0.4

≥ 10 years

81

68.9 (15.3)

(0.584)

72

67.2 (16.4)

(0.897)

Presence of complication

    

No

137

71.3 (17.3)

3.3

51

69.0 (18.4)

1.7

Yes

73

67.8 (15.3)

(0.185)

71

66.1 (15.1)

(0.589)

Presence of comorbidities

    

No

47

68.0 (18.7)

-3.4

14

69.6 (15.1)

-0.2

Yes

163

70.7 (16.0)

(0.239)

108

67.0 (16.8)

(0.964)

  1. Notes: complications were conditions or diseases related to diabetes including stroke, ischemic heart disease, kidney disease, peripheral neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, and eye disease; comorbidities included cancer, arthritis, hypertension, high blood cholesterol, asthma, lung conditions, liver conditions, mental disorders, urological disease, and ear, nose or throat diseases. * values are regression coefficients in multiple linear regression models in which the effects of administration mode, age, gender, employment status, and education using linear regression models are adjusted for.