Why the study?
Do symptoms impact health-related quality of life more than other factors in patients treated for hypertension?
Do symptoms impact health-related quality of life more than other factors in patients treated for hypertension?
In patients treated for hypertension, symptoms are the primary driver of health-related quality of life, outweighing blood pressure control or drug factors.
Symptoms may predominate in driving HRQOL among treated hypertension patients; cross-sectional data leaves open causal effects and intervention targets.
Symptoms have a greater impact on HRQOL than patient characteristics, blood pressure, or drug-related factors. Among patients receiving drug therapy for hypertension, detailed review of symptoms may yield important information for assessing and improving HRQOL.
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Erickson et al. (2004) studied this question.
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