The Quality of Life of Patients With Hypertension

The authors evaluated the self‐reported quality of life in patients with systemic arterial hypertension and assessed whether clinicians and normotensive respondents from the general public appreciate the impact that hypertension has on health‐related quality of life. A quality‐of‐life questionnaire...

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Published in:The journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) Conn.), 2002-05, Vol.4 (3), p.181-188
Main Authors: Stein, Joshua D., Brown, Gary C., Brown, Melissa M., Sharma, Sanjay, Hollands, Hussein, Stein, Harold D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Antihypertensive Agents - therapeutic use
Female
Health Surveys
Humans
Hypertension - diagnosis
Hypertension - drug therapy
Hypertension - psychology
Male
Middle Aged
Probability
Prognosis
Quality of Life
Severity of Illness Index
Sex Factors
Sickness Impact Profile
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:The authors evaluated the self‐reported quality of life in patients with systemic arterial hypertension and assessed whether clinicians and normotensive respondents from the general public appreciate the impact that hypertension has on health‐related quality of life. A quality‐of‐life questionnaire was completed by 385 individuals: persons with hypertension (n=188), normotensive persons (n=148), and clinicians (n=49). A utility score, which represents one's self‐perceived health‐related quality of life, was generated for each group by using standardized time tradeoff questionnaires. Quality of life with hypertension was judged to be significantly higher according to affected individuals (mean utility score, 0.980), compared with normotensive persons (mean utility score, 0.948) and clinicians (mean utility score, 0.942), who were asked to assume that they had hypertension (p
ISSN:1524-6175
1751-7176
DOI:10.1111/j.1524-6175.2002.00970.x