Skip to main content

Table 3 Mean SF-36 score differences between diabetic patients and non-diabetic patients

From: Quality of life after acute myocardial infarction: A comparison of diabetic versus non-diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Quebec acute care hospitals

 

Baseline N = 587

6 months N = 480

1 year N = 491

Physical functioning

-16.7 (-23.1,-10.3)

-13.6 (-21.0,-6.2)

-14.3 (-20.7,-7.8)

Role-physical

-13.1 (-22.7,-3.5)

-10.3 (-20.7,0.6)

-14.0 (-25.9,-3.2)

Bodily pain

-7.2 (-13.5,-0.9)

-5.2 (-12.2,1.7)

-4.9 (-11.3,1.5)

General health

-11.8 (-16.8,-6.7)

-7.2 (-12.9,-1.5)

-9.3 (-14.9,-3.6)

Vitality

-2.5 (-7.5,2.6)

-6.0 (-11.7,-0.4)

-2.7 (-7.9,2.5)

Social functioning

-7.3 (-13.1,-1.6)

-7.7 (-14.9,-0.5)

-6.4 (-12.3,-0.4)

Role-emotional

-4.9 (-14.4,4.6)

-8.8 (-19.6,-2.1)

-6.1 (-16.6,4.4)

Mental health

0.6 (-4.1,5.3)

-0.4 (-5.2,4.4)

-2.5 (-8.1,3.1)

Physical component summary (PCS)

-6.0 (-8.4,-3.6)

-4.6 (-7.5,-1.7)

-5.3 (-7.9,-2.7)

Mental component summary (MCS)

0.9 (-1.7,3.5)

-1.0 (-3.8,1.8)

-0.3 (-3.2,2.6)

  1. Differences are given as the diabetic patient scores minus the non-diabetic patient scores with the 95% confidence intervals in parentheses.
  2. Differences are considered to be clinically significant when the confidence interval laid ±5 units from zero.