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Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Weight loss required by the severely obese to achieve clinically important differences in health-related quality of life: two-year prospective cohort study

Characteristic

Wait-listed (number = 150)

Medical-management (number = 200)

Surgical-treatment (number = 150)

P-valuea

Female (number (%))

136 (91)

174 (87)

131 (87)

0.5

Age (years, mean (SD))

43.6 (9.2)

43.9 (10.0)

43.5 (9.5)

0.9

Married (number (%))

80 (54)

116 (58)

93 (62)

0.1

White (number (%))

139 (93)

178 (89)

141 (94)

0.2

Weight (kg, mean (SD))

134.7 (25.1)

132.9 (24.7)

127.9 (25.2)

0.05

BMI (kg/m2, mean (SD))

49.4 (8.2)

48.0 (8.2)

46.2 (7.4)

0.003

Hypertension (number (%))

99 (66)

134 (67)

92 (61)

0.5

Dyslipidemia (number (%))

89 (59)

123 (62)

90 (60)

0.2

Diabetes (number (%))

75 (50)

80 (40)

67 (45)

0.9

Depression (number (%))

98 (65)

133 (67)

88 (59)

0.3

SF-12 PCS (mean (SD))

35.5 (10.7)

37.1 (10.1)

41.5 (9.3)

< 0.001

SF-12 MCS (mean (SD))

38.5 (10.9)

40.8 (10.1)

46.9 (8.5)

< 0.001

EQ-Index (mean (SD))

0.691 (0.207)

0.716 (0.196)

0.792 (0.149)

< 0.001

EQ-VAS (mean (SD))

52.9 (22.1)

55.0 (19.4)

63.6 (18.6)

< 0.001

IWQOL-lite Total Score (mean (SD))

41.6 (21.1)

44.9 (20.4)

49.9 (19.3)

< 0.001

  1. aUsing ANOVA for continuous variables and chi-square for dichotomous variables.
  2. BMI, body mass index; EQ-Index, EQ-5D questionnaire index score; EQ-VAS, EQ-5D questionnaire visual analog scale score; IWQOL-Lite, Impact of Weight on Quality of Life - Lite questionnaire; MCS, mental component summary score; PCS, physical component summary score; SD, standard deviation; SF-12, Short Form 12 questionnaire.