Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Health-related quality of life in a rare disease analyzed
Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 3rd, 2005
According to authors G. Pasculli and colleagues, University of Bari, "The Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) was administered to 50 HHT patients and scores were compared to a cohort of 2,301 normal subjects. Clinical variables were patient age, illness duration, number of epistaxis episodes in the previous year, and hemoglobin levels."
Survey results showed that "physical functioning, physical role limitations, bodily pain, social functioning, emotional role limitations, and the physical component...
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