On average, on all of the scale items, scores for 176 people with BDD were worse than scores for 93% of people from the general U.S. population. poorer than for the general U.S. population (see Figure 7–3). As Figure 7–3 shows, their mental health-related quality of life is also worse than for people with a recent heart attack (an acute medical condition), type II diabetes (a chronic medical condition), or clinical depression.
