Coronary artery bypass graft surgery significantly improved the SF-36 Physical Component Summary score at 10 years compared to baseline (59.5 vs 51.4, p=0.004).
Cohort (n=272)
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Does elective isolated CABG surgery improve long-term quality of life in adults?
Elective isolated CABG surgery provides durable improvements in both physical and mental components of quality of life up to 10 years post-procedure.
Absolute Event Rate: 59.5% vs 51.4%
p-value: p=0.004
BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) is a multifactorial concept that assesses physical and mental health. We prospectively studied the quality of life of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery using the Short-Form 36-item questionnaire (SF-36) up to 10 years after surgery. METHODS: Between January 2000 and December 2002, all patients undergoing elective isolated CABG in the cardiac mean age at inclusion was 65 ± 10 years. At 10 years post-surgery, 81 patients had died (29.7%). The physical component summary (PCS) score was significantly higher at 5 years after surgery than at baseline (p < 0.01), and significantly lower at 10 years than at 5 years (p < 0.01), although there remained a significant difference between 10-year PCS and baseline score (p = 0.004). The mental component summary (MCS) score was significantly higher at 5 years than at the time of surgery (p < 0.001), and remained significantly higher compared to baseline at 10 years after surgery (p = 0.010). By multivariate analysis, diabetes and dypsnea were both associated with worse PCS at 10 years, while lower age was associated with better 10-year PCS. Only diabetes was associated with impaired MCS at 10 years. CONCLUSIONS: Cardiac surgery appears to durably and positively affect both physical and mental components of quality of life.
Perrotti et al. (Wed,) conducted a cohort in Coronary artery disease (n=272). Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery vs. Baseline (pre-operative) was evaluated on SF-36 Physical Component Summary (PCS) score at 10 years (p=0.004). Coronary artery bypass graft surgery significantly improved the SF-36 Physical Component Summary score at 10 years compared to baseline (59.5 vs 51.4, p=0.004).