Quality of life in Heart Failure

Quality of life percepcion is highly affected in patients with heart failure due to: limited physical condition because of symptoms and sings such as dispnea, fatigability, edemas, and lost of muscular mass, due to limitations in the diet, difficutlies to perform the usual work, problems to have an active sexual life, a progessive lost of autonomy, drugs side effects, recurrent hospital admissions, depresive syptoms... Fragility and frailty is closely related to quality of life. That is why, several sutides have shown that quality of life perception in HF patients is worse than in other chronic conditions such as diabetes or pulmonar obstructive disease and it is similar to patients on dialisis due to renal failure. In our studies, we have assess the variables that affect this decrease in quality of life, how it evolves algo time and how this perception is related to HF patients prognosis. We have also collaborated in the validation of the Spanish version of the Kansas City Cardiomiopathy Questionnaire.

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