tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Quality of life after acute myocardial infarction: A comparison of diabetic versus non-diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Quebec acute care hospitals"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Quality of life after acute myocardial infarction: A comparison of diabetic versus non-diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Quebec acute care hospitals | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Quality of life after acute myocardial infarction A comparison of diabetic versus non-diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Quebec acute care hospitals Ewurabena Simpsont and Louise Piloted Address Division of Clinical Epidemiology the Montreal General Hospital Research Institute Montreal Quebec Canada Email Ewurabena Simpson - Louise Pilote - Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 05 December 2005 Received 28 April 2005 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2005 3 80 doi 86 1477-7525-3-80 Accepted 05 December 2005 This article is available from http content 3 1 80 2005 Simpson and Pilote 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 Previous studies have evaluated the individual effects of acute myocardial infarction AMI and diabetes mellitus on health-related quality of life outcomes QOL . Due to the rising incidence of these comorbid conditions it is important to examine the synergistic impact of diabetes mellitus and AMI on QOL. Methods In this study we assessed using several previously validated questionnaires the QOL and functional status of 96 diabetic patients and 491 non-diabetic patients admitted to Quebec hospital sites with AMI between l997 and l998. We also conducted multivariate analyses to ascertain whether diabetes mellitus was an independent determinant of SF-36 physical functioning PCS and mental health MCS component score QOL outcomes after AMI. Results Both patient groups had similar baseline clinical characteristics but diabetic patients had slightly higher rates of cardiac risk factors compared to non-diabetics. .