Research Article

Quality of Life and Related Paraclinical Factors in Iranian Patients with Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia

Table 4

Quality of life scores classified by demographic and clinical characteristics.

PhysicalPsychologicalSocialEnvironment

Gender0.0200.1200.1300.025
Age0.0150.0590.0990.124
Education0.1010.3340.3280.127
Marital status0.0210.017−0.0560.095
Ferritin−0.356−0.067−0.305−0.026
FBS−0.067−0.353−0.169−0.183
AST−0.356−0.374−0.317−0.370
ALT−0.319−0.183−0.1790.119
Z score−0.068−0.068−0.134−0.110

Correlation significant at the 0.01 level (2 tailed).