Decreased health-related quality of life in angiodysplasia patients: A cross-sectional cohort.

ABSTRACT: Gastrointestinal angiodysplasias may cause anemia. Quality of life (QoL) is a valid patient reported outcome and improvement of QoL represents an important treatment goal. There is a paucity of data on the effect of angiodysplasias on QoL. Therefore, we aim to evaluate QoL and fatigue in angiodysplasia patients. We performed a cross-sectional patient-reported outcome study. We included patients with endoscopy proven angiodysplasias and measured QoL with Short Form-36 and level of fatigue using Multi Fatigue Inventory-20. We distinguished three subgroups of patients according to disease severity: 1) with treatment for angiodysplasias, 2) without treatment for angiodysplasias and 3) without recent hospital visits. The primary outcome was the physical component summary (PCS) score on the SF-3

SUBMITTER: Grooteman KV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5446116 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature