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Table 3 Correlations between subjective health expectations, happiness and continuous variables

From: Subjective health expectations of patients with age-related macular degeneration treated with antiVEGF drugs

Variables

EQ-5D utility (0–1)

TTO utility (0–1)

Happiness (0–10)

Expected remaining life years

Accuracy of life expectancy estimation

Expected EQ-5D scores for future ages

70y

80y

90y

Age

 

−0.032

−0.114

−0.358

0.329

0.366

0.289

0.052

ETDRS score in better eye

0.241

0.147

0.065

0.119

0.029

0.035

0.044

0.025

ETDRS score in worse eye

0.088

0.016

−0.022

0.078

−0.073

−0.013

−0.053

−0.157

VF-14 (0–100)

0.373

0.180

0.099

0.085

−0.048

0.191

0.151

0.168

TTO utility (0–1)

0.157

0.286

0.072

0.078

0.359

0.078

0.217

Current EQ-5D index score

0.157

0.146

0.112

0.098

0.642

0.357

0.451

Current EQ VAS (0–100)

0.387

0.144

0.212

0.182

0.162

0.432

0.323

0.266

Current general happiness VAS (0–10)

0.146

0.286

0.298

0.221

0.114

0.267

0.532

  1. Bold: Correlation is significant at the p < 0.05 level