Health-related quality of life as measured with the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire in patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis

Table 4 Findings of SF 36 quality of life scale in patients and controls

Population		PCS	MCS	References
Adults of the Chinese general population	Normal weight	77.5	73.4	Zhu, 2015 [25]
	Underweight	75.4	71.8
	Overweight	78.0	73.9
	Class I obese	78.4	75.1
	Class II obese	76.8	75.0
Overweight older adults, Stockholm County	Swedish physical activity intervention baseline	80	84	Olsson, 2015 [22]
Overweight older adults, Stockholm County	Swedish physical activity controls baseline	83	89	Olsson, 2015 [22]
Female rural-to-urban migrants, Chinese female		76.79	68.59	Wang, 2015 [24]
Patients with benign breast lumps, Chinese		75.42	68.70	Lou, 2015 [20]
Knee osteoarthritis patient, Chinese		70.37	80.94	Pang, 2015 [23]
Type 2 diabetes, Chinese		67.4	64.9	Hu, 2015 [16]
Caregiver spouses of veterans with bilateral lower extremity amputations	Study group	70	64	Moradi, 2015 [21]
	Controls: general population	73	66	Moradi, 2015 [21]
Patients at Risk for CVD in Uruguay, female		64.4	64.8	Clennin, 2015 [15]
College teachers, female		71.35	65.63	Liu, 2015 [18]
Chinese psychiatrists		79.78	71.50	Liu, 2015 [19]
Pre-diabetes patients,	Normal weight	88.01	85.52	Ibrahim, 2014 [17]
	Overweight	86.78	85.55
	Obese	78.59	83.06
	Total	81.83	83.85
Patients with RVVC and controls	Controls: general population	75.01	74.87	This study
Patients with RVVC and controls	RVVC	63.05	64.87	This study

CVD cardiovascular disease, PCS Physical component summary, MCS Mental component summary

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