| Autor: |
Rebecca Wong, Maggie S.W. Lau, Andrea O.Y. Luk, Juliana C.N. Chan, Yuying Zhang, C. C. Chow, Ronald Cw Ma, Alice P. Kong, Wing-Yee So, Harriet Chung, Nicola Brown, Risa Ozaki, Troels Wolthers, Greg Lyubomirsky, Marina Cheung, Chiu-Chi Tsang, Peter C Y Tong, Yu Cheung, Gary Tc Ko |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism. |
| ISSN: |
2155-6156 |
| DOI: |
10.4172/2155-6156.1000333 |
| Popis: |
Objective: Diabetes is associated with impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) which predicts adverse clinical outcome. To examine clinical factors associated with HRQoL in a cross-sectional cohort of 14,826 Hong Kong Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes receiving outpatient care. Methods: Adult patients with type 2 diabetes who underwent comprehensive assessment of risk factors and complications using the web-based Joint Asia Diabetes Evaluation (JADE) Program also completed the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) questionnaire and visual analogue scale (VAS) for evaluation of HRQoL. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify clinical correlates with EQ-5D index and the association was expressed using β-coefficient whereby β>0 indicates positive correlation and β |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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