tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Gender differences in health-related quality of life of adolescents with cystic fibrosis"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Gender differences in health-related quality of life of adolescents with cystic fibrosis | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Gender differences in health-related quality of life of adolescents with cystic fibrosis Renata Arrington-Sanders 1 Michael S Yi2 4 Joel Tsevat2 3 4 Robert W Wilmott6 Joseph M Mrus2 3 4 7 and Maria T Britto5 4 Address Adolescent Medicine Fellow Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland USA 2Division of General Internal Medicine University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA 3Veterans Healthcare System of Ohio VISN 10 Cincinnati Ohio USA institute for the Study of Health University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Ohio USA 5Division of Adolescent Medicine Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati Ohio USA 6Department of Pediatrics Saint Louis University St. Louis Missouri USA and 7GlaxoSmithKline Research Triangle Park NC USA Email Renata Arrington-Sanders - rarring3@ Michael S Yi - YIMS@ Joel Tsevat - TSEVATJ@ Robert WWilmott - wilmottr@ Joseph M Mrus - MRUSJ@ Maria T Britto - brid9j@ Corresponding author Published 24 January 2006 Received 18 October 2005 Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2006 4 5 doi l477-7525-4-5 Accepted 24 January 2006 This article is available from http content 4 1 5 2006 Arrington-Sanders 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 Female patients with cystic fibrosis CF have consistently poorer survival rates than males across all ages. To determine if gender differences exist in health-related quality of life HRQOL of adolescent patients with CF we performed a cross-section analysis of CF patients recruited from 2 medical centers in 2 cities during .