Table 3.
Quality of life by treatment category based on current clinical management compared with population normative data
| Treatment categories | ||||||
| Surgically cured (n=68) | Surgically corrected (n=105) | Surgically palliated (n=23) | Medical (n=70) | Inoperable (n=10) | Population normative values | |
| Median (IQR) age (years) | 32.0 (26.0–36.0) | 31.0 (27.0–37.0) | 31.0 (29.0–34.0) | 30.0 (25.8–36.3) | 31.0 (27.0–40.0) | |
| Quality of life category (mean (SD)) | ||||||
| Physical functioning (n=274) | 77.1 (27.8)* ** | 82.2 (22.4)* ** | 69.1 (27.4)*¶** | 85.8 (21.2)*§** | 39.1 (30.4)*†‡§¶ | 92.6 (14.8) |
| Role – physical (n=267) | 78.1 (37.1)* | 78.0 (37.5)* | 72.7 (40.8) | 86.2 (31.1) | 53.6 (44.3)* | 88.5 (27.9) |
| Role – emotional (n=267) | 70.7 (42.4)* | 76.3 (36.5) | 80.3 (36.6) | 83.6 (32.7) | 66.7 (42.2) | 82.8 (32.7) |
| Social functioning (n=274) | 73.5 (28.4)*¶ | 82.0 (24.6)* ** | 79.3 (24.0) | 85.9 (24.3)†** | 58.8 (29.5)*‡¶ | 88.4 (18.6) |
| Mental health (n=275) | 64.8 (22.4)*‡¶ | 73.6 (17.9)† | 65.9 (20.8) | 76.7 (17.3)†** | 56.8 (14.2)*¶ | 72.9 (16.7) |
| Energy/vitality (n=275) | 53.2 (26.1)* | 61.5 (23.5)** | 56.3 (22.0) | 63.9 (21.8)** | 35.0 (22.5)*ঠ| 60.3 (19.3) |
| Pain (n=273) | 79.1 (28.0) | 82.3 (24.6)** | 86.0 (21.8)** | 81.0 (25.9) | 58.9 (34.4)*ठ| 83.8 (20.3) |
| General health perception (n=275) | 58.2 (27.3)* ** | 64.7 (27.0)* ** | 57.3 (26.4)* ** | 67.4 (24.3)* ** | 26.9 (20.8)*†‡§¶ | 76.3 (18.9) |
Medical patients had no clinical indication for cardiac surgery or intervention. Population normative data for people aged 30–34 years (from the Oxford Healthy Life Survey 1991/2, HRSU, Oxford).
*Significantly different from population normative data; significantly different from †surgically cured group, ‡surgically corrected group, §surgically palliated group, ¶medical group, **inoperable group.