Quality of life utility values for hereditary haemochromatosis in Australia

Table 5 Mean utility values of symptomatic HH

Categories of HH	HSUV mean	SD	n	95 % CI	Between groups^a
All participants
Categories 1 & 2	0.80	0.19	83	0.76–0.84	H = 38.79, p < 0.001
Categories 3 & 4	0.58	0.27	138	0.54–0.63
All categories	0.66	0.26	221	0.63–0.70
Males
Categories 1 & 2	0.85	0.11	35	0.82–0.89	H = 25.36, p < 0.001
Categories 3 & 4	0.59	0.27	57	0.52–0.67
All categories	0.69	0.26	92	0.64–0.75
Females
Categories 1 &2	0.75	0.22	48	0.69–0.82	H = 14.90, p < 0.001
Categories 3 & 4	0.58	0.27	81	0.52–0.64
All categories	0.64	0.64	129	0.60–0.69

Note: HSUV refers to health state utility values; SD standard deviation; 95 % CI refers to the 95 % confidence interval
^aKruskal Wallis one way analysis of variance was used for this test for significance

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