Do elderly patients with heart failure or similar symptoms experience worse physical QoL and fatigue compared to matched controls?
Symptom experience, whether from confirmed heart failure or similar conditions, significantly impairs physical quality of life and increases fatigue in elderly primary care patients.
Elderly patients in primary healthcare with confirmed heart failure and patients with symptoms similar to heart failure perceived they had a significantly worse physical QoL and more general and physical fatigue than an age- and sex-matched control group. The similarities between the patient groups indicate the importance of the symptom experience for Hr-QoL.
Hägglund et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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