Effect of Diabetes on Outcome and Changes in Quality of Life After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Otso Järvinen, MD, PhD, Juhani Julkunen, PhD, Timo Saarinen, LicA(Psych), Jari Laurikka, MD, PhD, Matti R. Tarkka, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 79, Issue 3, Pages 819-824 (March 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.030 Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 Preoperative (grey bars) and follow-up (black bars) Rand-36 QOL-scores for diabetics and nondiabetics. Broken line indicates reference values for the general population. Dimensions are as follows: E = energy; EW = emotional well-being; GH = general health; P = pain; PF = physical functioning; RLE = role limitation due to emotional problems; RLP = role limitation due to physical problems; SF = social functioning. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 79, 819-824DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.030) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 2 Preoperative and 1-year postoperative RAND-36 Mental Component Summary (MCS) and Physical Component Summary (PCS) scores of patients with diabetes or with no diabetes. ○ = MCS, nondiabetics; • = MCS, diabetics; ▵ = PCS, nondiabetics; ▴ = PCS, diabetics. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 79, 819-824DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.030) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions