Association between alcohol consumption and symptom severity and quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia

Table 4 Comparison of SF-36 Scores with alcohol use (number of patients = 946).

SF-36^a	Alcohol consumption level^b				P-value	Adjusted P-value^c
	None (n= 546)	Low (n= 338)	Moderate (n= 31)	Heavy (n= 31)
Physical functioning	35.5 (21.5)	42.4 (22.4)	51.1 (23.2)	51.5 (22.9)	<0.001	<0.001
Role-physical	7.0 (17.5)	9.5 (21.1)	11.3 (24.9)	8.1 (20.8)	0.18	0.32
Pain index	23.0 (14.5)	27.2 (14.9)	32.5 (12.9)	30.4 (15.1)	<0.001	0.002
General health perceptions	35.7 (20.0)	41.1 (21.0)	43.5 (18.2)	43.0 (23.6)	<0.001	0.02
Vitality	16.3 (15.6)	18.9 (17.0)	19.7 (17.0)	23.7 (15.8)	0.01	0.33
Social functioning	36.4 (25.0)	42.1 (24.3)	47.6 (24.5)	46.0 (25.9)	<0.001	0.02
Role-emotional	45.0 (42.9)	48.9 (42.7)	45.2 (41.8)	46.2 (41.9)	0.62	0.91
Mental health index	55.5 (22.1)	58.4 (20.0)	60.8 (20.0)	59.9 (18.9)	0.13	0.51
Physical component summary	25.6 (7.1)	27.9 (7.8)	30.6 (8.1)	30.1 (9.0)	<0.001	<0.001
Mental component summary	39.4 (12.0)	40.6 (11.4)	40.4 (11.0)	40.7 (12.4)	0.49	0.76

SF-36, Short Form-36 Health Survey. ^aAll values are reported as mean (SD). ^bAlcohol consumption levels were defined as follows: none, 0 drinks/wk; low, ≤3 drinks/wk; moderate, >3 to 7 drinks/wk; heavy, >7 drinks/wk. ^cAfter adjusting for age, employment status, education level, body mass index and opioid use.

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