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Exploration of a symptoms experience in people with obesity-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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ABSTRACT: Background
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a highly prevalent condition strongly associated with obesity that can result in premature death. Little is known about the symptoms experience in this progressive disease, preventing health care providers from intervening in the early stages.Purpose
This study explicated symptoms in persons with NAFLD at higher risk of disease progression defined as the presence of one or two copies of the PNPLA3 (rs738409)-G allele.Method
Guided by the Symptoms Experience Model, 42 persons older than 21 years of age with diagnosed NAFLD were recruited from Western Michigan specialty offices in this cross-sectional descriptive study design. The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale was used to measure the symptoms experience.Discussion
Participants (97%) experienced 1 or more symptoms (average number of symptoms 12.02, standard deviation = 8.817). There was no statistically significant relationship between symptoms and the PNPLA3 (rs738409) variants. Significant predictors of mean frequency, severity, and distress of symptoms (the Total Memorial Symptom Scale) (F[15, 25] = 2.609, p = .016) were identified.Conclusion
People with NAFLD experience an average of 12 symptoms.
SUBMITTER: Houghton-Rahrig LD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3799949 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Exploration of a symptoms experience in people with obesity-related nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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<h4>Background</h4>Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a highly prevalent condition strongly associated with obesity that can result in premature death. Little is known about the symptoms experience in this progressive disease, preventing health care providers from intervening in the early stages.<h4>Purpose</h4>This study explicated symptoms in persons with NAFLD at higher risk of disease progression defined as the presence of one or two copies of the PNPLA3 (rs738409)-G allele.<h4>Meth ...[more]
