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Table 3 Comparison of Nottingham Health Profile – Part I among MELD score

From: Health-related quality of life in outpatients with chronic liver disease: a cross-sectional study

NHP – Part I

Individual health status

MELD score*

All patients (N = 254)

P valuea

Class I (N = 176)

Mean (SD)

Class II (N = 76)

Mean (SD)

Class III (N = 6)

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mobility

18.75 (21.81)

23.29 (23.77)

35.91 (27.11)

20.51 (22.66)

0.142

Energy levels

26.36 (33.48)

35.80 (37.97)

46.61 (39.30)

29.66 (35.23)

0.105

Pain

14.08 (24.80)

14.42 (21.96)

41.67 (47.49)

14.83 (24.92)

0.289

Sleep

19.78 (27.92)

22.70 (27.01)

26.94 (26.25)

20.82 (27.56)

0.305

Emotional reactions

19.17 (23.92)

20.11 (23.36)

16.22 (29.16)

19.38 (23.78)

0.756

Social isolation

12.89 (23.15)

16.82 (25.51)

12.04 (20.21)

14.05 (23.80)

0.328

  1. *MELD score using the original mathematical formula: 9.57 × loge(creatinine) + 3.78 × Loge(total bilirubin) + 11.2 × Loge(INR) + 6.43 [21]. Patients were categorized into three groups, as proposed by the Wiesner and colleagues [27], where a higher MELD score indicates a worse degree of liver disease: class I (≤ 9), class II (10–19), class III (20–29)
  2. aKruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks