Impact of demographic, clinical, and treatment compliance characteristics on quality of life of Venezuelan patients with systemic lupus erythematosus

Table 3 Risk factors associated with HRQoL in patients with inactive and SLE

Disease activity	β	p value	Exp (β) (95% confidence interval)
Inactive^a
Physical health
Age	− 0.096	0.014	0.909 (0.842–0.981)
Pain
Disease duration*	− 1.508	0.046	0.221 (0.050–0.976)
Intimate relationships
Age	− 0.073	0.037	0.930 (0.868–0.996)
Years of education	1.064	0.020	2.899 (1.182–7.109)
Emotional health
Age	− 0.075	0.032	0.928 (0.867–0.994)
Fatigue
Age	− 0.109	0.008	0.896 (0.826–0.972)
Current employment status, employed	2.244	0.013	9.429 (1.605–55.395)
Active^b
Physical health
SLE flare-ups in the previous six months, yes	− 3.549	0.024	0.029 (0.001–0.622)
Planning
Age	− 0.081	0.043	0.922 (0.853–0.997)
Intimate relationships
Age	− 0.182	0.012	0.834 (0.724–0.961)

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