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Health-related quality of life and associated factors in elderly individuals with dyslipidemia in rural Northern China

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of the study was to investigate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its associated factors among elderly individuals with dyslipidemia in rural Northern China.

Methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted on 457 elderly individuals. The EQ-5D-5L questionnaire was used to assess HRQOL. Sociodemographic, anthropometric, lifestyle and health information was collected using a structured and standardized questionnaire. The Tobit regression model and multiple linear regression analysis were used to assess factors associated with HRQOL parameters including utility index and visual analogue score (EQ-VAS).

Results

The mean age of the participating individuals was 68.04 ± 5.98 years. The median utility index and EQ-VAS scores were 0.942 (P25-P75: 0.876–1.000) and 80 (P25-P75: 70–90), respectively. Pain/discomfort was the most frequently reported complaint among the five health dimensions (50.5%). Illiterate and primary education levels, unemployed, widowed, smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, with hypertension or DM, chronic disease core knowledge scores < 8, and daily sedentary time ≥ 6 h were associated with lower HRQOL.

Conclusion

Pain/discomfort dimension was the most affected problems. Education, occupation, marital status, smoking, secondhand smoke exposure, chronic disease core knowledge, comorbidities, and daily sedentary time were significantly associated with HRQOL in the present study.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our project collaborators of Linyi Center for Disease Control and Prevention for helpful performs the project as a part of the initiative. We acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China for the support of this study. There are no financial relationships or issues to disclose.

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This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Grant Number was 82003456.

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    Liuqing Yang

  3. Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Beijing, 100020, China

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Du, Y., Yang, L., An, Y. et al. Health-related quality of life and associated factors in elderly individuals with dyslipidemia in rural Northern China. Qual Life Res 32, 3547–3555 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-023-03489-9

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