| General healtha | PCS | SPKD | Shortness of breathb | Average IDWG | Excessive IDWG |
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General healtha | 1.000 | 0.487 | 0.352 | 0.263 | − 0.021 | − 0.022 |
PCS | 0.487 | 1.000 | 0.406 | 0.287 | −0.003 | −0.006 |
SPKD | 0.352 | 0.406 | 1.000 | 0.601 | −0.033 | −0.042 |
Shortness of breathb | 0.263 | 0.287 | 0.601 | 1.000 | −0.015 | −0.045 |
Average IDWG | −0.22 | −0.045 | − 0.042 | −0.045 | 1.000 | 0.428 |
Excessive IDWG | −0.021 | −0.006 | − 0.059 | −0.015 | 0.428 | 1.000 |
- Average IDWG was considered as a percentage of body weight with respect to treatments in the 30 days prior to survey date. Excessive IDWG was considered as a gain of > 5% of target weight in > 10% of treatments occurring in the 30 days prior to the survey date
- a Item 1: “In general, would you say your health is:” Possible responses are “excellent,” “very good,” “good,” “fair,” and “poor”
- b Item 22: “During the past 4 weeks, to what extent were you bothered by each of the following?” Possible responses are “not at all bothered,” “somewhat bothered,” “moderately bothered,” “very much bothered,” and “extremely bothered”
- Abbreviations: IDWG interdialytic weight gain, PCS physical component summary, SPKD symptoms and problems of kidney disease