Psychosocial factors partially explain gender differences in health-related quality of life in heart failure patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

There is little information about the influence of gender on quality of life (QoL) in heart failure. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the health-related QoL gap between men and women can be explained by the interaction between psychosocial factors and clinical determinants in a real-word cohort of patients with chronic heart failure.

Methods and results

We conducted a single-centre, observational, prospective cohort study of 1236 consecutive patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure recruited between 2004 and 2014. To assess QoL, we used the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ). Female gender was associated with worse global QoL compared to male gender (MLHFQ overall summary score: 49 ± 23 vs. 43 ± 24; P value <0.001, respective

SUBMITTER: Tapia J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10053343 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature