Health-related quality of life and socioeconomic status: inequalities among adults with a chronic disease

Table 4 Multivariate association between educational level and mean VAS score: participants with ‘moderate/severe problems’ or with chronic disease

	Linear regression coeff. for low educational level ^a
	Men		women		Total ^b
	Estimate	P-value	Estimate	P-value	Estimate	P-value
Total	– 2.98*	<0.0001	−1.84*	<0.0001	−2.57*	<0.0001
Problems^c concerning:
Mobility	– 4.11*	0.0064	−1.07	0.4683	−2.52*	0.0171
Self-care	−10.29*	0.0042	−2.25	0.4537	−5.69*	0.0134
Usual activities	– 3.06	0.0896	−0.60	0.7143	−1.72	0.1548
Pain/discomfort	– 2.86*	0.0020	−0.61	0.4821	−1.77*	0.0052
Anxiety/depression	– 5.00*	0.0116	−1.90	0.1643	−3.00*	0.0076
At least 1 dimension	– 2.92*	0.0007	−1.02	0.1920	−1.97*	0.0007
None of these	– 0.73*	0.0404	−0.43	0.2293	−0.58*	0.0218
Chronic disease^c
Muscul. system	– 0.82	0.6778	+0.26	0.8938	−0.24	0.8610
Hypertension	– 4.81*	0.0231	−0.65	0.7406	−2.74	0.0563
Diabetes mellitus	−10.14*	0.0006	−5.14	0.0533	−7.37*	0.0002
Heart disease	−10.53*	0.0092	−1.70	0.6290	−5.53*	0.0429
Rheumatism	– 7.18*	0.0345	−2.93	0.4447	−4.96	0.0532
Headache/migraine	−10.23*	0.0012	−3.73	0.1933	−5.54*	0.0151
Any of these six	– 4.74*	0.0002	−1.44	0.2197	−3.10*	0.0003
Any chronic disease	– 3.45*	0.0019	−0.86	0.3790	−2.15*	0.0034