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Health-related quality of life, adiposity, and sedentary behavior in patients with early schizophrenia: preliminary study [PDF]

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity, 2012
Martin Strassnig,1 Jaspreet S Brar,2 Rohan Ganguli31Department of Psychiatry, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA; 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 3Department of Psychiatry, Centre for ...
Strassnig M, Brar JS, Ganguli R
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Evaluating emotional distress and health-related quality of life in patients with heart failure and their family caregivers:Testing dyadic dynamics using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model [PDF]

, 2020
Purpose: 1) To compare levels of emotional symptoms and health-related quality of life between patients with heart failure and their family caregivers; and 2) to examine whether patients’ and caregivers’ emotional symptoms were associated with their own,
Andreis, Federico, Angus, Neil, Chung, Misook, Howie, Kate, Leslie, Stephen, Mohan, Andrea, Mondoa, Catherine, Thomson, Particia, Thomson, Robert   +8 more
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Understanding public attitudes to death talk and advance care planning in Northern Ireland using health behaviour change theory: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Objectives Advance care planning is a key preparatory step in ensuring high-quality palliative and end of life care, and should be considered as a process, beginning with community-level conversations among lay persons. There is, however, indication that
L. Graham-Wisener, A. Nelson, A. Byrne, I. Islam, C. Harrison, J. Geddis, E. Berry   +6 more
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Association of smoking with poor health-related quality of life among health-profession students in China: A 31-university multilevel, multivariable analysis

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction While many studies have confirmed that smoking is causally associated with various diseases, some have found an association between smoking and human functional impairment. Relationships between smoking and poor healthrelated quality of life
Tingzhong Yang, Sihui Peng, Dan Wu, Ian R. H. Rockett   +3 more
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Health-related quality of life in hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis polyneuropathy: a prospective, observational study [PDF]

, 2020
Background Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis Polyneuropathy is a rare life-threatening neurologic disease that imposes considerable mortality and it is associated with progressive related disabilities.
Coelho, Teresa, Conceição, Isabel, Costa, João, de Carvalho, Mamede, Ferreira, Lara, Inês, Mónica   +5 more
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Prevention of health care associated venous thromboembolism through implementing VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines in hospitalized medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Implementation Science, 2020
Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Numerous VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines are available but not consistently implemented.
Juliana Abboud, Abir Abdel Rahman, Lara Kahale, Martin Dempster, Pauline Adair   +4 more
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“It’s a feeling of complete disconnection”: experiences of existential loneliness from youth to older adulthood

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background Existential loneliness is a feeling which stems from a sense of fundamental separation from others and the world. Although commonly mentioned in the loneliness literature, there is relatively little empirical work on this construct, and ...
Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Rhiannon N. Turner, Keming Yang, Jenny M. Groarke   +3 more
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Moderate-vigorous physical activity and health-related quality of life among Hispanic/Latino adults in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). [PDF]

, 2019
BackgroundPhysical activity is a modifiable healthy behavior that has been shown to positively influence health-related quality of life. However, research examining the link between physical activity and health-related quality of life among Hispanic ...
Argos, Maria, Cai, Jianwen, Castañeda, Sheila F, Daviglus, Martha L, Durazo-Arvizu, Ramon A, Gellman, Marc, González, Hector M, Lamar, Melissa, Marquez, David X, Mossavar-Rahmani, Yasmin, Murillo, Rosenda, Odoms-Young, Angela, Perreira, Krista M, Sotres-Alvarez, Daniela, Tarraf, Wassim, Vidot, Denise, Vásquez, Priscilla M, Wu, Donghong   +17 more
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Mapping Functions in Health-Related Quality of Life: Mapping From Two Cancer-Specific Health-Related Quality-of-Life Instruments to EQ-5D-3L. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Clinical trials in cancer frequently include cancer-specific measures of health but not preference-based measures such as the EQ-5D that are suitable for economic evaluation.
Brazier, JE, Longworth, L, Mukuria, C, Rowen, D, Young, TA   +4 more
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Sarcopenia and health‐related quality of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2023
The decrease of physical abilities and functional decline that can be caused by musculoskeletal conditions such as sarcopenia, can lead to higher levels of dependency and disability.
C. Beaudart, C. Demonceau, J. Reginster, M. Locquet, M. Cesari, A. C. Cruz Jentoft, O. Bruyère   +6 more
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