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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of patients in the study

From: Logistic feasibility of health related quality of life measurement in clinical practice: results of a prospective study in a large population of chronic liver patients

 

Respondents

(n = 327)

Non-respondents

(n = 260)

P

Gender (n, %)

   

   Women

144 (44)

108 (76)

0.46

   Men

183 (56)

135 (42)

 

Age (mean, range)

48.1 (20–81)

47.4 (18–80)

0.70

Diagnosis (n, %)

   

   Hepatitis B

47 (14)

43

0.00

   Hepatitis C

47 (14)

54

 

   Cholestatic liver disease

33 (10)

31

 

   Pre-transplantation

18 (6)

1

 

   Post-transplantation

110 (34)

52

 

   Auto-immune hepatitis

23 (7)

16

 

   Other

49 (15)

47

 

Disease Severity (n,%)

   

   No cirrhosis

206 (63)

153 (63)

0.95

   Compensated cirrhosis

87 (27)

63 (26)

 

   Decompensated cirrhosis

34 (10)

28 (11)

 

Nationality (n, %)

   

   Dutch

270 (83)

207 (85)

0.54

   Moroccan

5 (2)

2 (1)

 

   Turkish

7 (2)

7 (3)

 

   Surinam

10 (3)

4 (2)

 

   Europe other

6 (2)

4 (2)

 

   World other

25 (7)

20 (7)

 

   Unknown

4 (1)

0 (0)

 
  1. Differences were assessed by means of Chi-square tests (except for age: t-test)