Is the diagnosis of atrial fibrillation associated with lower physical and mental health component scores?
Patients with atrial fibrillation experience a significant reduction in physical health status, highlighting the need for healthcare professionals to actively address physical limitations and patient-reported symptoms.
Participants diagnosed with AF report a clinically and statistically significantly lower physical health component score. No systematic differences in the MCS were found when comparing with the remaining participants in the cohort. As healthcare professionals caring for patients living with AF are not always expecting patients living with AF to experience a burden from their disease, the individual patients' experience of their situation, feelings, preferences, symptoms and needs leading to physical limitations should always be articulated.
Hoegh et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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