Table 7. Numbers and percentages of patients reporting subjective evaluations of arm weight, shirt sleeve adjustment and arm swelling and associations of subjective evaluations with BIS and L-DEX cut-off points ≥10, ≥7.35, ≥6.5 and ≥1.35 (HCB-SP, April 2018 to January 2020).
| Sense of difference | BIS | p-value | BIS | p-value | BIS | p-value | BIS | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <10 | ≥10 | <7.35 | ≥7.35 | <6.5 | ≥6.5 | <1.35 | ≥1.35 | |||||
| Arm weight | ||||||||||||
| None | 244 (91.7) | 22 (8.3) | 0.003* | 233 (87.6) | 33 (12.4) | <0.001* | 228 (85.7) | 38 (14.3) | <0.001* | 165 (62) | 101 (38) | 0.328 |
| Slight | 85 (81) | 20 (19) | 73 (69.5) | 32 (30.5) | 71 (67.6) | 34 (32.4) | 56 (53.3) | 49 (46.7) | ||||
| Moderate | 52 (85.2) | 9 (14.8) | 49 (80.3) | 12 (19.7) | 48 (78.7) | 13 (21.3) | 35 (57.4) | 26 (42.6) | ||||
| Large | 22 (73.3) | 8 (26.7) | 19 (63.3) | 11 (36.7) | 19 (63.3) | 11 (36.7) | 15 (50) | 15 (50) | ||||
| Shirt sleeve adjustment | ||||||||||||
| None | 272 (92.2) | 23 (7.8) | <0.001* | 255 (86.4) | 40 (13.6) | 0.001* | 250 (84.7) | 45 (15.3) | 0.001* | 179 (60.7) | 116 (39.3) | 0.625 |
| Slight | 82 (80.4) | 20 (19.6) | 74 (72.5) | 28 (27.5) | 72 (70.6) | 30 (29.4) | 58 (56.9) | 44 (43.1) | ||||
| Moderate | 29 (74.4) | 10 (25.6) | 26 (66.7) | 13 (33.3) | 25 (64.1) | 14 (35.9) | 20 (51.3) | 19 (48.7) | ||||
| Large | 20 (76.9) | 6 (23.1) | 19 (73.1) | 7 (26.9) | 19 (73.1) | 7 (26.9) | 14 (53.2) | 12 (46.2) | ||||
| Arm swelling | ||||||||||||
| None | 281 (94) | 18 (6) | <0.001* | 267 (89.3) | 32 (10.7) | <0.001* | 262 (87.6) | 37 (12.4) | <0.001* | 197 (65.9) | 102 (34.1) | <0.001* |
| Slight | 71 (76.3) | 22 (23.7) | 63 (67.7) | 30 (32.3) | 60 (64.5) | 33 (35.5) | 42 (45.2) | 51 (54.8) | ||||
| Moderate | 36 (76.6) | 11 (23.4) | 33 (70.2) | 14 (29.8) | 33 (70.2) | 14 (29.8) | 25 (53.2) | 22 (46.8) | ||||
| Large | 15 (65.2) | 8 (34.8) | 11 (47.8) | 12 (52.2) | 11 (47.8) | 12 (52.2) | 7 (30.4) | 16 (69.6) | ||||
BIS = Bioimpedance spectroscopy; ≥ = greater than or equal to; < = less than, % = percentage
*
p < 0.05