Table 2.
MS | General Population | Mean Difference (95% CI) | |
Overall HUI3 score | 0.58 | 0.84 | 0.25 (0.20 – 0.31)* |
Vision | 0.94 | 0.96 | 0.03 (0.01 – 0.05)* |
Hearing | 0.99 | 0.99 | 0.00 (-0.01 – 0.004) |
Speech | 0.99 | 1.00 | 0.01 (-0.003 – 0.006) |
Ambulation | 0.72 | 0.98 | 0.26 (0.20 – 0.32)* |
Dexterity | 0.93 | 1.00 | 0.06 (0.03 – 0.10)* |
Emotion | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.03 (0.01 – 0.05)* |
Cognition | 0.89 | 0.94 | 0.05 (0.02 – 0.09)* |
Pain | 0.77 | 0.91 | 0.14 (0.09 – 0.19)* |
† Adjusted for age, sex, education, marital status, social assistance, and number of medical conditions other than MS
* p < 0.05 based on the Bootstrap Variance Estimate for between groups difference after adjusting for covariates.