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| Predictors of the quality of life of older people with heart failure recruited from primary care | | Author(s) | Merryn Gott, Sarah Barnes, Chris Parker |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 35, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp 172-177 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Heart disease ; General practice ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Bradford ; Barnsley ; East Devon ; Hampshire. |
| Annotation | Current understanding of quality of life (QoL) in heart failure is largely derived from clinical trials. Older people, women and those with co-morbidities are under-represented in these. This study concerns older people recruited from general practice surgeries in four areas of the UK: Bradford, Barnsley, East Devon, and West Hampshire. Among 542 people aged 60+ with heart failure, the following factors were predictive of reduced quality of life: being female; evidence of depression; being in New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class III and IV; having two or more co-morbidities; and being in socioeconomic groups III-V. Older age was associated with reduced quality of life as measured by a generic quality of life tool (the SF-36), but not by a disease-specific quality of life tool (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire). Overall, the study's findings suggest that quality of life for older people with heart failure can be described a challenging and difficult. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060517212 A |
| Classmark | F:59: CQH: L5: CC: 4C: 88A: 85A: 8DEF: 8H |
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