Activities of Daily Living and Outcomes in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Functional debility is associated with worse outcomes in the general heart failure population, but the prevalence of difficulty with activities of daily living and clinical significance once patients develop advanced heart failure requires further examination.

Methods

This was a population-based, retrospective cohort study of Olmsted County, Minnesota adults with advanced heart failure from 2007-2018. Difficulty with 9 activities of daily living was assessed by questionnaire. Predictors of difficulty were assessed by a proportional odds model. Associations of difficulty with activities of daily living with mortality and hospitalization were examined using Cox and Andersen-Gill models.

Results

Among 765 patients with advanced heart failure, 565 (73.9%) repor

SUBMITTER: Roy AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9691584 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature