Quality Of Life

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Among PROVE-HF trial participants with HF with reduced ejection fraction and moderate to severe mitral regurgitation at baseline, sacubitril/valsartan improved mitral regurgitation severity in about half, a speaker reported.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Aficamten was associated with sustained improvement in patient-reported symptom burden and quality of life at 6 months when used to treat obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a speaker reported.

Worse cough-specific quality of life appears to be associated with risk for respiratory hospitalization, death and lung transplantation in patients with interstitial lung disease, researchers reported in Chest.

Higher health-related quality of life scores in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis correspond to higher career- and health-related quality of life scores for their caregivers, according to data published in Pediatric Rheumatology.

BOSTON — In patients with aortic stenosis, a greater degree of cardiac damage before transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement increased the likelihood of poor quality of life outcomes after the procedure, researchers reported.

The future of rheumatoid arthritis treatment has expanded beyond just managing the disease itself, according to Linda Li, PT, PhD, professor and Harold Robinson/Arthritis Society Chair in Arthritic Diseases at the University of British Columbia.

Dupilumab significantly improved the signs and symptoms of moderate to severe atopic dermatitis as well as quality of life among patients aged 6 months to younger than 6 years, according to a study published in The Lancet.

Results of a recently released poll revealed that roughly 60% of patients with Parkinson’s disease do not believe their symptoms are manageable and cannot be improved beyond their current state.

MILAN — Atopic dermatitis patients with lower disease severity and better quality of life also were associated with lower clinical burdens and work impairment, according to a poster presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress.

In this video, Andrew Ciupek, PhD, spoke with Healio about non-treatment-related presentations from at the World Conference on Lung Cancer.