Health-related quality of life in older Chinese patients with diabetes

Zhuang, Ma, Pan, Lu (2020) Health-related quality of life in older Chinese patients with diabetes PLoS One (IF: 3.7) 15(2) e0229652
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Abstract

Although older diabetes patients with unique characteristics should be cared carefully to improve their health-related quality of life (HRQOL), the association between diabetes and HRQOL remain unclear, especially in Asians. We aimed to compare the HRQOL between older Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and their age-gender-matched controls.Older patients with T2D were recruited from a community hospital in Suzhou located in the east part of China while controls were selected from a community-based health survey of older adults aged 60 years or older. HRQOL of cases and controls was assessed by the EQ-5D-3L. The impact of T2D on HRQOL was investigated using a liner regression model and the relationship between T2D and EQ-5D health problems was evaluated using logistic regression models.A total of 220 cases and 440 controls were included. The mean age of the participants was 68.8 years and women accounted for 69.1% of the study sample. The EQ-5D-3L index score was lower for older people with T2D (0.886) than their controls (0.955). After multivariable adjustment, the difference in ED-5D-3L index score between older people with and without T2D was 0.072. In logistic regression analyses, T2D was positively associated with reporting of problems in mobility (odds ratio [OR] = 5.00); pain/discomfort (OR = 1.66), and anxiety/depression (OR = 3.2).T2D has a detrimental effect on HRQOL of older Chinese people.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7046237
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32106232
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229652

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