The relative health related quality of life of veterans with Parkinson’s disease and self reporting eight other chronic diseases, adjusted for age, sex, race, education, and 15 co-morbid conditions
| Mean (SE) physical component summary score | Mean (SE) mental component summary score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chronic condition (1) | Per cent of core population (weighted n)* (2) | Mean (SD) number of self reported chronic conditions (3) | With condition (4) | Without condition (5) | Mean effect of condition on PCS in points† (SE) (6) | With condition (7) | Without condition (8) | Mean effect of condition on MCS in points† (SE) (9) |
| *Total weighted core population, 3 199 209. †An effect size of −4.55 is equivalent to 0.46 of one standard deviation. All coefficients are significant at p < 0.001. MCS, mental component summary score of the short form-36 questionnaire; PCS, physical component summary score. | ||||||||
| Spinal cord injury | 3.6% | 5.10 | 32.38 | 36.93 | −4.55 | 44.00 | 44.89 | −0.89 |
| (116 189) | (0.006) | (0.069) | (0.013) | (0.070) | (0.075) | (0.014) | (0.077) | |
| Depression | 29.6% | 4.96 | 35.88 | 37.17 | −1.29 | 35.94 | 48.89 | −12.95 |
| (946 693) | (0.005) | (0.026) | (0.017) | (0.033) | (0.030) | (0.018) | (0.038) | |
| Parkinson’s disease | 1.2% | 4.01 | 32.72 | 36.82 | −4.10 | 41.48 | 44.91 | −3.42 |
| (39 405) | (0.024) | (0.096) | (0.013) | (0.096) | (0.106) | (0.014) | (0.107) | |
| Congestive heart failure | 13.4% | 6.39 | 33.68 | 37.25 | −3.57 | 42.78 | 45.19 | −2.41 |
| (428 538) | (0.007) | (0.035) | (0.014) | (0.038) | (0.040) | (0.015) | (0.044) | |
| Stroke | 8.8% | 5.82 | 33.69 | 37.06 | −3.37 | 43.13 | 45.03 | −1.89 |
| (281 760) | (0.009) | (0.041) | (0.013) | (0.06) | (0.046) | (0.014) | (0.048) | |
| Chronic low back pain | 39.9% | 4.60 | 33.76 | 38.89 | −5.14 | 43.67 | 45.70 | −2.04 |
| (1 276 539) | (0.004) | (0.021) | (0.018) | (0.028) | (0.023) | (0.019) | (0.031) | |
| Arthritis | 50.2% | 4.46 | 34.15 | 39.59 | −5.44 | 44.57 | 45.16 | −0.59 |
| (1 606 481) | (0.003) | (0.018) | (0.020) | (0.028) | (0.020) | (0.021) | (0.030) | |
| Diabetes | 18.8% | 5.06 | 35.04 | 37.18 | −2.14 | 44.22 | 45.01 | −0.79 |
| (600 805) | (0.006) | (0.028) | (0.014) | (0.031) | (0.031) | (0.015) | (0.034) | |
| Angina/coronary heart disease | 18.6% | 5.94 | 35.49 | 37.07 | −1.58 | 44.66 | 44.85 | −0.25 |
| (596 323) | (0.005) | (0.032) | (0.015) | (0.037) | (0.039) | (0.016) | (0.041) | |