Research Article

Effects of Diabetic Complications on Health-Related Quality of Life Impairment in Vietnamese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 4

Health utility measured by the EQ-5D index according to different diabetic complications.

Diabetic complicationsEQ-5D index
Median (IQR)Difference (95% CI)a

Total2140.94 (0.85-1.00)
Number of diabetic complications
 Without diabetic complications1311.00 (0.88-1.00)REF
 Having at least one diabetic complication830.94 (0.84-1.00)-0.10 (-0.18; -0.01)
 Having one diabetic complication670.92 (0.82-1.00)-0.10 (-0.20; -0.01)
 Having two or more diabetic complications161.00 (0.92-1.00)-0.06 (-0.25; 0.12)
Complications
 Having diabetic heart disease560.94 (0.86-1.00)-0.05 (-0.14; 0.04)
 Having diabetic nephropathy180.93 (0.85-.100)-0.08 (-0.23; 0.07)
 Having diabetic retinopathy100.92 (0.81-1.00)-0.17 (-0.37; 0.03)

. aMultivariate Tobit regression adjusted for the number of comorbidities, age, sex, duration of disease, HbA1c, glucose, SBP, and DBP.