Burden of peripheral arterial disease in Europe and the United States: a patient survey

Table 2 Unadjusted mean patient-reported outcomes of those with and without PAD in the 5EU and United States

	5EU
	PAD		No PAD (Age matched)		No PAD
	n = 743		n = 743		n = 57, 062
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Mental component summary (MCS) score	43.44*	11.37	48.64	10.42	46.58	10.58
Physical component summary (PCS) score	37.57*	11.16	46.43	10.74	48.75	9.66
Health state utilities (SF-6D)	0.63*	0.12	0.73	0.14	0.73	0.13
Absenteeism %	12.08*	27.68	3.65	15.16	5.44	19.16
Presenteeism %	30.05*	27.42	13.77	21.03	15.84	22.8
Overall work impairment %	36.63*	33.33	16.26	24.73	19.39	27.69
Activity impairment %	46.54*	30.05	25.52	29.24	24.24	28.11
Number of physician visits	11.89*	13.66	5.66	6.24	5.34	7.37
Number of ER visits	0.40*	1.57	0.17	1.01	0.19	1.07
Number of hospitalizations	0.39*	1.54	0.12	0.62	0.13	1.16
	US
	PAD		No PAD (Age matched)		No PAD
	n = 777		n = 777		n = 74,223
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Mental component summary (MCS) score	45.51*	12.87	51.11	10	48.36	10.93
Physical component summary (PCS) score	31.77*	11.22	45.5	11.48	48.53	10.53
Health state utilities (SF-6D)	0.62*	0.14	0.76	0.14	0.75	0.14
Absenteeism %	12.80*	25.5	3.36	13.46	3.21	12.97
Presenteeism %	35.22*	30.46	13.99	22.95	14.37	22.63
Overall work impairment %	39.94*	34.34	15.62	25.3	16.12	25.11
Activity impairment %	56.67*	30.71	26.82	30.18	23.27	28.74
Number of physician visits	9.08*	9.63	4.98	6.61	3.86	5.87
Number of ER visits	0.65*	2.09	0.17	0.61	0.19	0.91
Number of hospitalizations	0.54*	1.56	0.12	0.44	0.11	0.91

*PAD group means differ from no PAD (age matched) group and no PAD group within region, p < .05.
Absenteeism, presenteeism, and overall work impairment were only asked among those who were currently employed.

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