. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2010 Aug 13;6(6):608–614. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2010.07.015

Table 1.

Health related quality of life as assessed by the SF-36

	Baseline	Week 20	Week 40	Week 92
	n = 200	n = 198	n = 147	N = 112
General Health	52.3 ± 1.6^a	71.7 ± 1.5^b	72.0 ± 1.7^b	73.3 ± 1.9^b
Physical Functioning	34.2 ± 1.8^a	67.5 ± 1.7^b	74.0 ± 1.8^c	70.8 ± 2.2 ^b,c
Role Physical	53.5 ± 3.0^a	81.8 ± 2.4^b	84.5 ± 2.5^b	83.1 ± 2.8^b
Role Emotional	74.5 ± 2.6^a	84.7 ± 2.3^b	87.8 ± 2.3^b	82.7 ± 3.0 ^a,b
Social Functioning	65.9 ± 2.1^a	84.8 ± 1.6^b	83.6 ± 2.0^b	81.6 ± 2.5^b
Bodily Pain	53.7 ± 1.9^a	75.4 ± 1.8^b	75.8 ± 2.1^b	73.9 ± 2.3^b
Vitality	36.3 ± 1.4^a	63.2 ± 1.5^b	64.7 ± 1.7^b	61.4 ± 2.0^b
Mental Health	70.7 ± 1.2^a	78.2 ± 1.2^b	77.2 ± 1.4^b	74.6 ± 1.7 ^a,b
Physical Health Summary Measure	48.7 ± 1.6^a	73.9 ± 1.6^b	76.4 ± 1.7^b	76.5 ± 1.8^b
Mental Health Summary Measure	62.0 ± 1.4^a	77.9 ± 1.4^b	78.4 ± 1.6^b	75.7 ± 2.0^b

Values with the same superscript letter do not differ from one another; values which do not share the same letter are significantly different from one another, based on Bonferroni adjustment, significant differences are p < .008.