Evaluation of health-related quality of life and the related factors in a group of Chinese patients with interstitial lung diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) include a wide variety of chronic progressive pulmonary diseases characterized by lung inflammation, fibrosis and hypoxemia and can progress to respiratory failure and even death. ILDs are associated with varying degrees of quality of life impairments in affected people. Studies on the quality of life in patients with ILDs are still limited, and there are few studies with long-term follow-up periods in these patients.

Methods

Data from patients who were clinically diagnosed with ILDs in the Respiratory Department, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University from January 2017 to February 2018 were collected. Clinical status and HRQoL were assessed at baseline and subsequently at 6- and 12-month intervals with the LCQ, m

SUBMITTER: Yuan XY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7417083 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature