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Measurement of Quality of life in Patient with Type 2 Diabetes. (2). The Influence of Patients' Profiles and Diabetic Complications on Quality of Life.

Accession number;01A0266263

Title;Measurement of Quality of life in Patient with Type 2 Diabetes. (2). The Influence of Patients' Profiles and Diabetic Complications on Quality of Life.

Author; SANO HIRONAO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) ASAO KEIKO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) MATSUSHIMA MASATO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) AGATA TOSHIHIKO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) KUSAKA MASAHISA (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) SASAKI TOSHIYUKI (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) TANISHIMA YUICHIRO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) YAMAMOTO IZUMI (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine) TAJIMA NAOKO (Jikei Univ. School of Medicine)

Journal Title;Journal of the Japan Diabetic Society

Journal Code:Z0279B

ISSN:0021-437X

VOL.44;NO.1;PAGE.57-62(2001)

Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.1, TBL.4, REF.5

Pub. Country;Japan

Language;Japanese

Abstract;A self-administered questionnaire was conducted on 239 men 40 years and over with type 2 diabetes mellitus who visited the Jikei University Hospital outpatient diabetic clinic. To evaluate the effect of diabetic complications on quality of life (QOL), we used the Diabetes Quality of Life Scale for the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, translated into Japanese. Multiple linear regression analysis showed that younger age, lower educational status, longer duration of diabetes, and insulin therapy significantly decreased total QOL score. Multiple linear regression analysis of diabetic complications confirmed that total QOL scores of patients with proteinuria, diabetic neuropathy, and cerebral infarction were significantly lower than those of patients without these complications. The analysis by domains revealed that the score of "limitation on daily life," "overall satisfaction," "psychological burden," and "satisfaction with treatment" decreased in patients with diabetic neuropathy and cerebral infarction, cerebral infarction, diabetic neuropathy, and proteinurea, and protenurea. These results suggest that physical symptoms, psychological burden, and social factors of diabetic complications affect QOL of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. (author abst.)

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