Table 7.

Quality of Life and Breast Implant Surgery (Among WHI OS^a Subjects without Breast Cancer at Baseline)

	No Breast Implant Surgery			Breast Implant Surgery
	N	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	p-value	Age- adjusted p-value
SF 36 Measures
General Health Construct	85481	73.9	18.3	1237	75.7	19.2	0.001	0.030
Role Limitations Due to Physical Health	85744	72.9	36.3	1247	75.7	35.7	0.008	0.667
Role Limitations Due to Emotional Problem	85842	83.7	30.0	1244	81.2	32.8	0.003	0.002
Physical Functioning Construct	85057	81.1	20.4	1239	85.4	19.1	<.0001	0.0003
Social Functioning	85850	89.3	18.4	1246	87.9	19.7	0.007	0.019
Emotional Well-being	85402	78.6	14.7	1239	77.2	15.7	0.001	0.041
Pain Construct	86044	74.3	23.7	1249	74.5	24.1	0.796	0.606
Energy/Fatigue	85516	63.7	19.4	1245	64.5	20.5	0.148	0.089
Rate Quality of Life	86076	8.3	1.5	1250	8.1	1.6	<.0001	0.005
Satisfied with Quality of Life	86090	8.1	1.9	1249	7.8	2.2	<.0001	0.002
Life Event Construct #1 (0,1 scoring)	84852	1.7	1.4	1221	1.8	1.5	<.0001	0.019
Life Event Construct #2 (0-3 scoring)	84852	3.3	3.2	1221	3.7	3.5	<.0001	0.001
Negative Emotional Expressiveness (NEE)	85804	2.8	0.6	1241	2.9	0.6	0.178	0.400
Hostility Construct	83171	3.7	2.8	1202	3.5	2.7	0.003	0.008
Optimism Construct	84379	23.3	3.5	1223	23.5	3.7	0.007	0.018
Sleep Disturbance Construct	84869	12.6	3.3	1242	12.7	3.3	0.607	0.487
Social Strain Construct	84692	6.5	2.5	1228	6.9	2.6	<.0001	0.007
Social Support Construct	84354	35.9	7.9	1232	35.3	8.3	0.007	0.0002
20 Symptom Construct	79083	0.4	0.3	1171	0.5	0.3	0.001	0.003

^aWomen's Health Initiative Observational Study