Table 4 Quality of life among patients with EE grades C/D and those with grades A/B.

From: Quality of life and severity of symptoms among patients with various degrees of reflux esophagitis: a prospective study

 

EE grades A/B (N = 99)

EE grades

C/D (N = 50)

P valuea

Overall QoL score (mean) (SD)

23.0 (16.0)

28.1 (18.9)

0.6

QoL scores for subclasses

 Daily activity

26.0 (15.1)

28.1 (18.9)

0.2

 Treatment effects

11.4 (18.6)

15.0 (21.6)

0.3

 Dietary effects

39.4 (31.0)

42.1 (32.8)

0.9

 Psychosocial wellbeing

17.2 (26.5)

20.7 (29.1)

0.7

  1. SD, standard deviation, QoL quality of life.
  2. aP value by the Mann–Whitney for continuous/discrete variables.
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