Quality Of Life

SAN ANTONIO — Insurance delays and denials for hereditary angioedema medication have a negative impact on physical and mental health, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

SAN ANTONIO — Older food allergy patients who have had anaphylaxis or needed epinephrine had lower quality of life than other patients, according to data presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting.

NEW ORLEANS — Treatment of severe tricuspid regurgitation with transcatheter repair was safe, reduced severity of tricuspid regurgitation and led to improvements in quality of life at 1 year, according to results of the TRILUMINATE Pivotal trial.

Use of the investigational microbiome therapeutic SER-109 resulted in rapid and steady improvement in disease-specific quality of life for patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, according to data in JAMA Network Open.

Adults with long-standing type 1 diabetes and proliferative diabetic retinopathy had worse functional vision than controls without diabetes, but no decline in quality of life was observed from 2007 to 2019, according to study findings.

Patients with allergic rhinitis and comorbid asthma had poorer health-related quality of life and symptom control than patients who had allergic rhinitis alone, according to a study published in Clinical and Translational Allergy.

Adolescents with severe peanut allergy experienced clinically relevant improvements in health-related quality of life with oral immunotherapy and omalizumab, according to a letter published in Clinical and Translational Allergy.

Women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections reported negative effects on their sleep, exercise, sexual function, productivity and health-related quality of life, according to findings published in PLOS ONE.

In these videos, Preeya K. Gupta, MD, FACS, associate professor of ophthalmology at Duke University, talks about the various treatment options for dry eye, both approved and in the pipeline, as well as challenges in diagnosis.

Agoraphobic symptoms were common and associated with poor quality of life in adults with epilepsy, while generalized anxiety symptoms were not, according to a study published in Epilepsy Research.