PMID- 33892726
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210531
LR  - 20210531
IS  - 1477-7525 (Electronic)
IS  - 1477-7525 (Linking)
VI  - 19
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Apr 23
TI  - Epidemiological profile, cardiopulmonary fitness and health-related quality of 
      life of patients with heart failure: a longitudinal study.
PG  - 129
LID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01634-3 [doi]
LID - 129
AB  - BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is a severe and self-limiting syndrome. Its signs 
      and symptoms are believed to predict poorer health-related quality of life 
      scores, which are mainly influenced by deterioration in physical capacity. In the 
      present study we try to analyze the influence of clinical and socioeconomic 
      characteristics and physical capacity on the quality of life of people with HF 
      diagnosis. METHODS: A longitudinal study was conducted over 2 years with patients 
      diagnosed with HF. To evaluate the patients the method of face-to-face visit and 
      telephone monitoring was used. In the evaluations were applied: the Clinical and 
      Socioeconomic Characterization Questionnaire, the Minnesota Living With Heart 
      Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) for quality of life evaluation and the Veterans 
      Specific Activity Questionnaire (VSAQ) for cardiopulmonary fitness analysis. 
      Measures of central tendency, proportion, normality test, confidence intervals, 
      comparison of data through paired Student t test and Wilcoxon or Mann Whitney 
      test were performed and correlations were verified through Spearman coefficient. 
      RESULTS: The study included 108 patients, most of them female (50.90%) and mean 
      age of 66.62 +/- 11.33 years. The median time of HF diagnosis was 5 +/- 6 years, 
      being Chagas' disease the main etiologic cause for the disease (57.40%). As for 
      the clinical condition, functional classes II (44.40%) and III (48.10%) of the 
      New York Heart Association (NYHA) were the most frequent. There was a low 
      cardiopulmonary fitness, with loss of capacity to perform daily activities (3 +/- 1 
      to 3 +/- 3) over the time of clinical follow-up. There was an increase in the MLHFQ 
      instrument scores, from 50.98 +/- 15.52 to 61.76 +/- 19.95, over the analysis time. 
      The analysis of correlations demonstrated that variables such as schooling, NYHA 
      class, echocardiographic alterations and the drug profile have a significant 
      relationship with the constructs of quality of life and physical fitness. 
      CONCLUSION: Individuals in HF have significant impairment of cardiorespiratory 
      capacity and tend to present worsening of QL along the evolution of the disease.
FAU - Silva, Paula Cristina
AU  - Silva PC
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-1415-2593
AD  - Health Sciences, Federal University of Uberlandia. CV, Rua Adamastor Leocadio, 
      624/ Bairro Pampulha, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, 38408-678, Brazil. 
      paullakristyna@gmail.com.
FAU - de Almeida Neto, Omar Pereira
AU  - de Almeida Neto OP
AD  - Health Care, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, 
      Minas Gerais, Brazil.
FAU - Resende, Elmiro Santos
AU  - Resende ES
AD  - Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Federal University of Uberlandia, Uberlandia, 
      Minas Gerais, Brazil.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20210423
PL  - England
TA  - Health Qual Life Outcomes
JT  - Health and quality of life outcomes
JID - 101153626
SB  - IM
MH  - Activities of Daily Living/*psychology
MH  - *Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Aged
MH  - Cardiorespiratory Fitness/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Heart Failure/epidemiology/*psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Quality of Life/*psychology
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
PMC - PMC8063347
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cardiorespiratory function
OT  - Heart Failure
OT  - Physical limitation
OT  - Quality of life
COIS- The authors declare that they have no conflicting interests.
EDAT- 2021/04/25 06:00
MHDA- 2021/06/01 06:00
PMCR- 2021/04/23
CRDT- 2021/04/24 05:25
PHST- 2019/04/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/12/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/04/24 05:25 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/04/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/06/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/04/23 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01634-3 [pii]
AID - 1634 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01634-3 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2021 Apr 23;19(1):129. doi: 
      10.1186/s12955-020-01634-3.