Health related quality of life after conservative or invasive treatment of inducible postinfarction ischaemia. DANAMI study group
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OBJECTIVE: To assess health related quality of life in patients with inducible postinfarction ischaemia.
DESIGN: A questionnaire based follow up study on patients randomised to conservative or invasive treatment because of postinfarction ischaemia.
SETTING: Seven county hospitals in eastern Denmark and the Heart Centre, National University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
PATIENTS: 113 patients with inducible postinfarction ischaemia: 51 were randomised to conservative treatment and 62 to invasive treatment. Average follow up time was three years (19-57 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: SF-36, Rose angina and dyspnoea questionnaire, drug use, lifestyle, and cognitive function.
RESULTS: Invasively treated patients scored better on the SF-36 scales of physical functioning (p = 0.03) and on role-physical (p = 0.04) and physical component scales (p = 0.05) and took significantly less anti-ischaemic drug treatment. Angina occurred in 18% of the invasively treated patients and 31% of the conservatively treated patients (p = 0.09). However, more invasively treated patients suffered from concentration difficulties (18% v 4%; p = 0.04).
CONCLUSIONS: Patients who were treated invasively had better health related quality of life scores in the physical variables compared with conservatively treated patients. However, a larger proportion of invasively treated patients had concentration difficulties.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Heart (British Cardiac Society) |
Volume | 84 |
Issue number | 5 |
Pages (from-to) | 535-40 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISSN | 1355-6037 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2000 |
- Adult, Aged, Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary, Coronary Artery Bypass, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Health Status Indicators, Humans, Life Style, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction/complications, Myocardial Ischemia/etiology, Psychometrics, Quality of Life, Treatment Outcome
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