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Do sleep difficulties reduce health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure?
Do sleep difficulties reduce health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure?
Sleep difficulties, including initiating and maintaining sleep, are associated with reduced health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure.
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Sleep difficulties should not yet change HF practice; hypothesis-generating for interventional trials on HRQOL.
Patients with HF have a reduced HRQOL especially if difficulties maintaining sleep, initiating sleep, and early morning awakenings are involved.
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Broström et al. (2004) studied this question.
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