Table 6. Health-related quality of life and correlation with etiology of CLD, Child-Pugh stage, ascites, and UGIE.

PF: physical functioning; RLPH: role limitations due to physical health; RLEP: role limitations due to emotional problems; E/F: energy/fatigue; EWB: emotional well-being; SF: social functioning; GH: general health; NAFLD: non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; UGIE: upper gastrointestinal endoscopy; EV: esophageal varices; GV: gastric varices; PHG: portal hypertensive gastropathy; CLD: chronic liver disease

Variables		PF (mean rank)	RLPH (mean rank)	RLEP (mean rank)	E/F (mean rank)	EWB (mean rank)	SF (mean rank)	Pain (mean rank)	GH (mean rank)
Etiology	Alcohol	28.82	27.78	28.90	30.18	28.90	27.98	29.80	29.13
	Hepatitis B	35.67	39.00	26.67	36.58	32.17	32.17	35.25	33.67
	Hepatitis C	57.00	54.00	44.00	50.75	51.75	43.00	44.75	47.75
	Autoimmune	3.50	24.00	18.00	2.00	8.00	1.50	4.50	13.00
	NAFLD	17.00	24.00	39.50	19.50	35.50	48.50	4.50	39.25
	Cryptogenic	38.67	35.67	43.00	17.50	31.50	44.83	40.50	39.00
	Cardiac cirrhosis	51.50	59.00	55.50	57.50	59.50	59.00	53.00	13.00
	P-value	.080	.006	.226	.088	.236	.064	.082	.452
Child-Pugh stage	A	44.25	39.00	30.60	49.00	34.75	40.25	54.25	44.38
	B	38.19	32.65	31.48	37.37	34.37	34.17	31.00	31.29
	C	22.00	27.50	23.38	22.08	26.58	26.02	26.90	27.97
	P-value	.001	.116	.624	<0.001	.219	.106	.013	.195
Ascites	Absent	46.38	35.25	33.88	47.94	38.06	41.56	45.81	47.50
	Present	28.06	29.77	29.98	27.82	29.34	28.80	28.14	27.88
	P-value	.006	.251	.510	.002	.187	.051	.008	.003
Ascites grade	Grade 1	38.09	31.27	27.82	38.32	35.86	28.50	32.82	36.09
	Grade 2	24.73	27.46	28.19	24.62	30.00	28.12	26.23	25.81
	Grade 3	22.77	24.18	25.20	22.73	21.20	24.96	24.14	23.05
	P-value	.015	.149	.749	.013	.015	.724	.271	.049
UGIE	Normal	38.56	35.25	34.75	40.50	38.25	36.69	33.31	44.50
	EV/GV/PHG	29.26	29.77	29.85	28.96	29.31	29.55	30.07	28.35
	P-value	.160	.251	.407	.081	.176	.275	.624	.014