Table 4.

RAND-36 health-related quality-of-life domain scores for participants age ≥ 18 years

Domain	Female patients	Male patients	P
Physical functioning	35 (20–55)	45 (25–70)	< 0.001
Role limitations due to physical health	0 (0–0)	0 (0–0)	0.8
Role limitations due to emotional health	67 (0–100)	33 (0–100)	0.001
Energy and fatigue	15 (5–30)	20 (10–30)	0.2
Emotional well-being	64 (48–76)	56 (40–72)	< 0.001
Social functioning	38 (25–63)	38 (13–50)	0.03
Pain	45 (23–68)	45 (33–70)	< 0.001
General health	25 (15–40)	30 (20–45)	< 0.001
Composite scores
Physical health	32 (21–46)	38 (24–51)	< 0.001
Mental health	53 (37–69)	48 (33–65)	0.001
Overall health	49 (36–63)	49 (24–51)	0.6

Median scores (25th-75th percentiles) are reported. After correction for multiple comparisons, a P value of 0.005 was considered significant, indicated by boldface.

RAND-36, short-form, 36-item health questionnaire (Santa Monica, CA).