Table 7.

Pairwise spearman correlations between PEmb-QoL dimensions/summary score and baseline characteristics *

	Age	Female gender	Obesity	Cancer	Cardiopulmonary comorbidity ‡
Frequency of complaints	−0.05	0.07	0.21†	−0.15	0.03
ADL limitations	0.32†	−0.08	0.18	−0.07	0.12
Work-related problems	0.18	−0.16	−0.02	−0.05	0.17
Social limitations	0.02	0.01	0.21†	−0.12	0.11
Intensity of complaints	−0.01	−0.06	0.14	−0.16	0.10
Emotional complaints	−0.10	−0.07	0.13	−0.18	0.13
Overall PEmb-QoL summary score	0.12	−0.07	0.16	−0.15	0.12

Abbreviations: ADL = Activities of daily living.

*Numbers represent Spearman correlation coefficients (r).

^†Correlation with statistical significance (P <0.05).

^‡Any cardiac disease with systolic or diastolic ventricular dysfunction or any obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease.