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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2016 Sep;95(9):639–655. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000000455

Table 5.

Significant predictors for each outcome

Characteristics Shoulder abduction ROM Shoulder flexion ROM Grip Strength Breast Pain Function Interference
Demographic
 Age I I
 Lived alone at enrollment S S
 Years of education I
 Ethnicity (non-white) I I, S
Clinical
 Exercised regularly prior to surgery I
 Self-administered comorbidity questionnaire score I
 Karnofsky Performance Scale score I I
 Stage of disease at time of diagnosis I
 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy I I
 Type of surgery (mastectomy, BCS) I, S S S
 Axillary lymph node dissection I, S I
 Breast reconstruction at time of surgery I
 Breast re-excision during the year after surgery S
 Surgical drain placed I, S S
 Adjuvant chemotherapy in first year S S S
 Shoulder abduction ROM (affected) at enrollment I
 Shoulder flexion ROM (affected) at enrollment I
 Grip strength (affected) at enrollment I
 Breast pain functional interference score at enrollment I I

BCS: breast conserving surgery; I: intercept; ROM: range of motion; S: slope