Changes in health-related quality of life and treatment effects in chronic heart failure : a meta-analysis

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BACKGROUND: Heart failure (HF) is associated with poor health status, and high morbi-mortality. However, it is not well established how health status changes correlate with treatment effects on clinical outcomes. Our aim was to study the association between treatment-induced changes in health-status, assessed by Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire 23 (KCCQ-23), and clinical outcomes in chronic HF.

METHODS: Systematic search of phase III-IV pharmacological RCTs in chronic HF that assessed KCCQ-23 changes and clinical outcomes throughout follow-up. We studied the association between treatment induced changes in KCCQ-23 and treatment effects on clinical outcomes (HF hospitalization or cardiovascular death, HF hospitalization, cardiovascular death, and all-cause death) using weighted random-effects meta-regression.

RESULTS: Sixteen trials were included, enrolling a total of 65,608 participants. Treatment induced KCCQ-23 changes were moderately correlated with treatment effects on the combined outcome of HF hospitalization or cardiovascular mortality (regression coefficient (RC) = -0.047, 95%CI: -0.085 to -0.009; R2 = 49%), a correlation that was mainly driven by HF hospitalization (RC = -0.076, 95%CI: -0.124 to -0.029; R2 = 56%). Correlations of treatment induced KCCQ-23 changes with cardiovascular death (RC = -0.029, 95%CI: -0.073 to 0.015; R2 = 10%) and all-cause death (RC = -0.019, 95%CI: -0.057 to 0.019; R2 = 0%) were weak and non-significant.

CONCLUSIONS: Treatment-induced changes in KCCQ-23 were moderately correlated with treatment-effects on HF hospitalizations but were not correlated with the effects on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Treatment-induced changes in patient-centered outcomes (i.e., KCCQ-23) may reflect non-fatal symptomatic changes in the clinical course of HF leading to hospitalization.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:386

Enthalten in:

International journal of cardiology - 386(2023) vom: 01. Sept., Seite 65-73

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Angélico-Gonçalves, António [VerfasserIn]
Leite, Ana Rita [VerfasserIn]
Neves, João Sérgio [VerfasserIn]
Saraiva, Francisca [VerfasserIn]
Brochado, Liliana [VerfasserIn]
Oliveira, Ana Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Butler, Javed [VerfasserIn]
Packer, Milton [VerfasserIn]
Zannad, Faiez [VerfasserIn]
Vasques-Nóvoa, Francisco [VerfasserIn]
Leite-Moreira, Adelino [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira, João Pedro [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Health status
Heart failure
Hospitalization
Journal Article
KCCQ
Meta-Analysis
Mortality
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 15.06.2023

Date Revised 26.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijcard.2023.05.032

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM357135466