Effects of the atrial fibrillation better care pathway on outcomes among clinically complex Chinese patients with atrial fibrillation with multimorbidity and polypharmacy …

A Kotalczyk, Y Guo, M Stefil, Y Wang… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Patients with atrial fibrillation commonly have complex clinical backgrounds of
multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The Atrial Fibrillation Better Care (ABC) pathway has …

Self-reported physical activity, QoL, cardiac function, and cardiorespiratory fitness in women with HER2+ breast cancer

SS Peck, M Esmaeilzadeh, K Rankin, T Shalmon… - Cardio Oncology, 2022 - jacc.org
Background Women treated for breast cancer are at risk for worsening health-related quality
of life (QoL), cardiac function, and cardiorespiratory fitness. Objectives The aim of this study …

Cost-effectiveness of noninvasive telemedical interventional management in patients with heart failure: health economic analysis of the TIM-HF2 trial

H Sydow, S Prescher, F Koehler, K Koehler… - Clinical research in …, 2022 - Springer
Background Noninvasive remote patient management (RPM) in patients with heart failure
(HF) has been shown to reduce the days lost due to unplanned cardiovascular hospital …

Eliciting national and subnational sets of disability weights in mainland China: Findings from the Chinese disability weight measurement study

X Liu, F Wang, M Zhou, Y Yu, J Qi, P Yin… - The Lancet Regional …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The disability weight (DW) quantifies the severity of health states from disease
sequela and is a pivotal parameter for disease burden calculation. We conducted a national …

Metacognitive therapy self-help for anxiety-depression: Single-blind randomized feasibility trial in cardiovascular disease.

A Wells, D Reeves, C Heal, P Fisher, P Doherty… - Health …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Background: One in three cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients experience significant
anxiety and depression. Current psychological interventions have limited efficacy in …

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and the effect on outcome in patients presenting with coronary artery disease and treated with percutaneous coronary …

A Conradie, J Atherton, E Chowdhury… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background and aim: poor quality of life (QoL) has been identified as an independent risk
factor for mortality and major cardiac events (MACE) in patients with cardiovascular disease …

Differences in health-related quality of life between the Roma community and the general population in Romania

T Robinson, Y Oluboyede, L Vale, E Olariu - Journal of Patient-Reported …, 2022 - Springer
Background Previous research has shown that Roma people report worse health outcomes
than the general population and suffer from a myriad of economic and social disadvantages …

Frailty and quality of life among older adults in communities: the mediation effects of daily physical activity and healthy life self-efficacy

CH Lin, CY Liu, CC Huang, JR Rong - Geriatrics, 2022 - mdpi.com
As the global population ages, frailty, which has been shown to affect and predict the quality
of life (QoL) of older adults, has become a central issue. The aim of this study was to explore …

Assessing health-related quality-of-life in patients with symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: EQ-5D-based utilities in the EXPLORER-HCM trial

J Xie, Y Wang, Y Xu, JT Fine, J Lam… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Aims To assess the effects of mavacamten on health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) in
symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and estimate health utilities by …

Relationship of haptoglobin phenotypes with sarcopaenia in patients with congestive heart failure

A Karim, T Muhammad, I Shah, J Khan… - Heart, Lung and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Systemic inflammation in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) contributes to
age-related muscle loss or sarcopaenia. However, the relationship of plasma haptoglobin …