Why the study?
What are the clinical determinants of health-related quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure and systolic dysfunction?
Cross-Sectional (n=205)
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What are the clinical determinants of health-related quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure and systolic dysfunction?
p-value: p=<0.0001
In patients with heart failure and systolic dysfunction, NYHA functional class is the strongest clinical predictor of reduced quality of life, though much of the variance in quality of life remains unexplained by standard cardiopulmonary metrics.
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V Suresh (2002) conducted a cross-sectional in Congestive heart failure and systolic dysfunction (n=205). NYHA functional class vs. General population and other chronic diseases was evaluated on Health-related quality of life (SF-36 scores) (p=<0.0001).
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