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. 2022 Feb 1;18(2):617–629. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.9682

Table 5.

—Comparisons of excessive daytime sleepiness, high level of depression, and low health status with IHSS total score and weighted IHSS total score.

Variable ESS Score BDI-II Score EQ-5D-VAS Score
< 16 (n = 120), n (%) ≥ 16 (n = 104), n (%) P < 20 (n = 164), n (%) ≥ 20 (n = 43), n (%) P ≥ 60 (n = 134), n (%) < 60 (n = 62), n (%) P
Sex .49 .10 .75
 Men 35 (29.17) 26 (25.00) 52 (31.71) 8 (18.60) 36 (26.87) 18 (29.03)
 Women 85 (70.83) 78 (75.00) 112 (68.29) 35 (81.40) 98 (73.13) 44 (70.97)
Age, in years 31.72 (± 12.53) 32.63 (± 12.07) .58 33.40 (± 12.11) 29.87 (± 11.66) .09 32.92 (± 12.03) 32.88 (± 12.62) .98
Disease duration, y 13.88 (± 10.94) 13.99 (± 11.88) .94 14.67 (± 10.99) 12.52 (± 11.85) .26 15.23 (± 11.33) 13.08 (± 11.83) .23
Treatment .008 .14
 No 79 (65.83) 85 (81.73) 119 (72.56) 36 (83.72) 96 (71.64) 46 (74.19) .71
 Yes 41 (34.17) 19 (18.27) 45 (27.44) 7 (16.28) 38 (28.36) 16 (25.81)
IHSS total scorea 25.90 (± 9.23) 34.01 (± 7.70) < .0001 28.52 (± 9.45) 35.23 (± 7.12) < .0001 28.16 (± 8.90) 34.35 (± 7.83) < .0001
Weighted IHSS total scorea 15.97 (± 13.22) 32.68 (± 10.06) < .0001 57.48 (± 52.30) 112.56 (± 32.36) .002 459.03 (± 456.79) 957.31 (± 471.86) < .0001

aQuantitative variables are expressed as mean (± SD). BDI-II = Beck Depression Inventory II, EQ-5D = European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions questionnaire, ESS = Epworth Sleepiness Scale, IHSS = Idiopathic Hypersomnia Severity Scale, VAS = visual analog scale.