Hypertension and health-related quality of life

Hypertension labelling was associated with poorer self-rated health in the Third US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

“…For example, some studies show that labelling increases work absenteeism [5][6][7] while others show that labelled hypertensives have lower selfrated health (SRH) than normotensives. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] This apparent SRH effect of labelling has been reported in comparisons of labelled and unlabelled (unaware hypertensive) persons 11 and may occur in individuals mislabelled (i.e., normotensive persons misdiagnosed as hypertensive). 9 Therefore, even though screening and detection of hypertension is necessary to prevent the complications of hypertension, it may also adversely impact global SRH through labelling effects.…”

“…4 Thus, quality of life on a population level is operationally defined in part by global self-health appraisals like those shown to be sensitive to hypertension labelling. 8,9,[11][12][13]25 If blood pressure screening and concomitant hypertensive labelling reduce SRH, then success in some elements of public health promotion (blood pressure screening and hypertension control) may erode progress in others (quality of life), particularly for those who are mislabelled.…”

“…Prior studies have utilized clinic 10,25 or otherwise restricted samples, 9,12 enrolled unusually hypertensive subgroups, 25,26 lacked normotensive controls, 27 and/or did not covary potential confounding factors such as antihypertensive treatments, 8 socioeconomic status, 10,12,27 body mass index (BMI), 26,28 and concurrent chronic disease. 10,25 Population-based studies with adequate controls were either small 11,13 or lacked independent blood pressure measurements, 8,15 and none have enrolled sufficient numbers of racial/ethnic subgroups to evaluate the consistency of labelling effects across non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic subpopulations. Finally, in order to distinguish labelling effects from the effects of hypertension status it is necessary to examine large samples including hypertensive and normotensive individuals, both labelled and unlabelled (or mislabelled, as the case may be).…”

The relations between quality of life, morbidity of chronic non-infectious diseases and use of medications in stroke patients

“…По данным разных авторов, AГ оказывает нега-тивное влияние на качество жизни [19,20]. В соот-ветствии с результатами настоящего исследования, мужчины и женщины в группе перенесших ЦИ больных, страдающие АГ, оценивали свое качество жизни в аспекте физического здоровья хуже, чем лица, не страдающие АГ.…”

“…В соот-ветствии с результатами настоящего исследования, мужчины и женщины в группе перенесших ЦИ больных, страдающие АГ, оценивали свое качество жизни в аспекте физического здоровья хуже, чем лица, не страдающие АГ. C. Bardage и D. Isacson [20] изучили соотношение АГ и качества жизни. Иссле-дование проводилось среди общей популяции Шве-ции с помощью анкет оценки качества жизни SF-36, которые были отправлены по почте случайно ото-бранным 8000 жителям региона Уппсала в возрасте 20-84 лет.…”