Impact of non-cardiovascular disease comorbidity on cardiovascular disease symptom severity: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Non-cardiovascular comorbidity is common in cardiovascular disease (CVD) populations but its influence on chest pain (CP) and shortness of breath (SOB) symptom-specific physical limitations is unknown. We wanted to test the a priori hypothesis that an unrelated comorbidity would influence symptom-specific physical limitations and to investigate this impact in different severities of CVD.

Method and results

The study was based on 5426 patients from ten family practices, organised into eight a priori exclusive severity groups: (i) no CVD or osteoarthritis (OA) (reference), (ii) index hypertension, ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and heart failure (HF) without OA, (iii) index OA without CVD and (iv) same CVD groups with comorbid OA. The measure of CP physical limitatio

SUBMITTER: Rushton CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4078220 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature