Quality Of Life

Quality of life with glaucoma can be affected not only by vision loss, but also by less tangible factors such as the burden of daily drops or an increase in fear and anxiety.

Healio handpicked its top stories on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, which highlight risks for children with NAFLD, how fatigue relates to quality of life, treatment with resmetirom and more.

As we continue ambitious efforts to help more people with kidney failure choose home dialysis therapies, new surveys and research are showing that patient satisfaction and quality of life may be critical to our success.

The psychological needs of people with congenital heart disease remain largely unmet despite research suggesting mental health support is critical for quality of life, according to an American Heart Association scientific statement.

Treatment combining an implanted 10 kHz spinal cord stimulator and conventional care yielded better quality of life for adults with painful diabetic neuropathy, according to study findings.

After analyzing multiple patient-reported outcome measures for health-related quality of life regarding acne, researchers recommended the Acne-Q and CompAQ for use in clinical studies.

An 8-week course of daily probiotics was associated with improvements in a number of psoriasis disease parameters, including quality of life, according to study findings.

LONDON — Patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease had worse health-related quality of life, regardless of fibrosis stage, compared with the general population, according to research presented at the International Liver Congress.

LONDON — Long-term givosiran treatment provided sustained benefit and improved quality of life among patients with acute hepatic porphyria, according to research presented at the International Liver Congress.

CHICAGO — Better health-related quality of life was linked to longer survival in patients with intermediate- or poor-risk renal cell carcinoma, according to an analysis of the CheckMate 214 trial.