PMID- 31336549
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191227
LR  - 20191227
IS  - 1878-0334 (Electronic)
IS  - 1871-4021 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 2
DP  - 2019 Mar-Apr
TI  - Quality of life in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic 
      retinopathy: A case-control study.
PG  - 947-952
LID - S1871-4021(18)30569-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.dsx.2018.12.012 [doi]
AB  - AIMS: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) as a common complication of Type 2 Diabetes 
      Mellitus (T2DM) affecting negatively quality of life (QoL). Assessing of QoL in 
      patients with DR is a prerequisite for the evaluation of their needs and for 
      understanding the perception of the patients themselves about their health status 
      and how the disease affects their lives. Additionally, QoL indicators detect 
      individual psychosocial problems that may impact therapeutic response. MATERIALS 
      AND METHODS: A total of 70 subjects with T2DM and DR as well as 70 T2DM 
      individuals without DR were included. For the evaluation of QoL we used (a) WHO 
      QoL - BREF for the estimation of QoL, (b) Life Satisfaction Scale for the 
      estimation of satisfaction from life, and (c) the special recording document for 
      demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical data. At the same time, blood was 
      collected for the measurement of glucose control and renal function. DR was 
      diagnosed by dilated fundoscopy. RESULTS: Patients with DR had significantly 
      worse scores in all scales of QoL and Life Satisfaction in comparison with those 
      without DR. We found significant impact of the severity of DR in many domains of 
      the QoL and Life Satisfaction. Multivariate logistic regression analysis 
      demonstrated that DR was associated with worse QoL and Life Satisfaction scores 
      as well as lower income, while no significant associations were found with 
      education level, family, insurance and employment status as well as type of 
      residence. CONCLUSION: DR affects QoL and Life Satisfaction and is associated 
      with lower income.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Ligda, Georgia
AU  - Ligda G
AD  - Department of Psychiatry, Sismanoglio General Hospital, Athens, Greece. 
      Electronic address: georgialig@yahoo.gr.
FAU - Ploubidis, Dimitrios
AU  - Ploubidis D
AD  - First Psychiatric Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian 
      University of Athens, Greece, Athens.
FAU - Foteli, Stefania
AU  - Foteli S
AD  - Evangelismos, General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Kontou, Panagiota I
AU  - Kontou PI
AD  - Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University of 
      Thessaly, Greece.
FAU - Nikolaou, Chrysoula
AU  - Nikolaou C
AD  - Department of Medical Biopathology - Psychoimmunology, Eginition Hospital, 
      Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Tentolouris, Nikolaos
AU  - Tentolouris N
AD  - First Department of Propaedeutic Internal Medicine, Medical School, National and 
      Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, Athens, Greece.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Observational Study
DEP - 20181220
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Diabetes Metab Syndr
JT  - Diabetes & metabolic syndrome
JID - 101462250
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Case-Control Studies
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/*complications
MH  - Diabetic Retinopathy/etiology/*psychology/*therapy
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Patient Satisfaction/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - *Quality of Life
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Diabetic retinopathy
OT  - Life satisfaction
OT  - Quality of life
OT  - Type 2 diabetes mellitus
OT  - WHOQOL-BREF
EDAT- 2019/07/25 06:00
MHDA- 2019/12/28 06:00
CRDT- 2019/07/25 06:00
PHST- 2018/11/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/07/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/07/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/12/28 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1871-4021(18)30569-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.dsx.2018.12.012 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Diabetes Metab Syndr. 2019 Mar-Apr;13(2):947-952. doi: 10.1016/j.dsx.2018.12.012. 
      Epub 2018 Dec 20.