Co-morbidity and visual acuity are risk factors for health-related quality of life decline: Five-month follow-up EQ-5D data of visually impaired older patients

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  van Nispen, Ruth M A ^a,b   de Boer, Michiel R ^c   Hoeijmakers, Janneke G J ^a   Ringens, Peter J ^a   van Rens, Ger H M B ^a,b,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d ELKERLIEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62849123525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-7-18     Document Type: Article

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