Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important
issue for both diabetes patients and dialysis patients
[5-7]. HRQOL, and in particular its physical aspects,
has been found to be a predictor of mortality in ESRD
patients receiving dialysis [8-10]. Self-reported physical
aspects of HRQOL are also a predictor for mortality in
type 2 diabetes patients without ESRD [11], and, this
finding has been extended to include elderly patients
with type 2 diabetes [12].