tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: "Health-related quality of life of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B infection"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài :Health-related quality of life of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B infection | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Health-related quality of life of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B infection Elegance TP Lam 1 Cindy LK Lam1 CL Lai2 MF Yuen2 Daniel YT Fong3 and Thomas MK So4 Open Access Address Department of Medicine Family Medicine Unit The University of Hong Kong 3 F 161 Main Street Ap Lei Chau Clinic Ap Lei Chau Hong Kong 2Department of Medicine The University of Hong Kong Queen Mary Hospital Hong Kong 3Department of Nursing Studies The University of Hong Kong 4 F William MW Mong Block Faculty of Medicine Building 21 Sassoon Road Hong Kong and 4Department of Medicine and Geriatrics Princess Margaret Hospital Hong Kong Email Elegance TP Lam - etplam@ Cindy LK Lam - clklam@ CL Lai - hrmelcl@ MF Yuen - mfyuen@ Daniel YT Fong - dytfong@ Thomas MK So - somkt@ Corresponding author Published 5 June 2009 Received 22 December 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 52 doi 86 1477-7525-7-52 Accepted 5 June 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 52 2009 Lam et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Few studies have evaluated the health-related quality of life HRQOL of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B CHB infection. Aim To evaluate the HRQOL of Chinese patients at different stages of CHB infection and to find out factors associated with HRQOL. Methods 520 Chinese adult CHB patients of whom 156 were uncomplicated 102 had impaired liver function 139 had cirrhosis and 123 had hepatocellular carcinoma HCC were interviewed with a structured questionnaire the SF-36 Health Survey version 2 SF-36v2 and the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire CLDQ . The differences