Journal article

Changes in quality of life associated with complications of diabetes: Results from the ADVANCE study

A Hayes, H Arima, M Woodward, J Chalmers, N Poulter, P Hamet, P Clarke

Value in Health | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2016

Abstract

Objective To measure the impact of complications on summary measures of health-related quality of life among people with type 2 diabetes. Methods Patients participating in the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease:Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial were administered a health-related quality-of-life questionnaire, the three-level EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-3L), on four occasions over a 5-year period. We used two-way fixed-effects longitudinal regression models to investigate the impact of incident diabetes complications (stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, ischemic heart disease, renal failure, blindness, and amputation) on EQ-5D-3L ..

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