Valuing health-related quality of life: systematic variation in health perception

Table 2 Parameter estimates, robust regression, VAS as dependent variable

	Estimate	Std. error	Pr(>\|t\|)	Significance
(Intercept)	98.3150	2.2046	0.0000	***
Sex	−0.8091	0.2861	0.0047	**
Age	−0.2063	0.0115	0.0000	***
Education
Low	Reference
Medium	0.7643	0.3260	0.0191	*
High	0.9874	0.3767	0.0088	**
Employment status
Unemployed	Reference
Employed	4.0233	2.1912	0.0664	.
No answer	3.8399	2.1863	0.0791	.
Public servant	4.1347	2.3132	0.0740	.
Self-employed	3.9145	2.2546	0.0826	.
Worker	3.9608	2.2051	0.0725	.
BMI
Normal weight	Reference
Underweight	0.7083	0.6040	0.2410
Overweight	−1.6191	0.3009	0.0000	***
Obesity class I	−3.1870	0.8692	0.0002	***
Obesity class II	−3.1904	1.6789	0.0575	.
Obesity class III	−9.0364	3.0929	0.0035	**
Disease affliction	Binary
Allergy	0.1723	1.9057	0.9280
Asthma	−3.6867	2.9752	0.2154
Cold	1.0383	1.2530	0.4073
Diabetes	−8.4187	2.2352	0.0002	***
Flu	1.4430	1.3633	0.2899
Heart disease	−6.1609	2.8770	0.0323	*
Hypertension	−2.6707	1.5183	0.0787	.
Gut	0.9271	1.5420	0.5477
Migraine	−0.4713	1.2814	0.7131
Musculoskeletal disease	−3.3929	1.5141	0.0251	*
Periodontal disease	0.5671	1.4143	0.6885
Skin disease	−1.2974	2.5502	0.6110
Thyroid disease	−1.9188	2.4029	0.4246
One disease	−3.2772	1.2155	0.0070	**
Two diseases	−3.8294	2.1846	0.0797	.
Three diseases	−4.8167	3.5382	0.1735
Four diseases	−8.2427	5.5741	0.1393

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