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Which breathlessness dimensions associate most strongly with fatigue?-The population-based VASCOL study of elderly men.

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العنوان: Which breathlessness dimensions associate most strongly with fatigue?-The population-based VASCOL study of elderly men.
المؤلفون: Cristea, L, Olsson, M, Sandberg, J, Kochovska, S, Currow, D, Ekström, M
المساهمون: Samaranayaka, A
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: University of Technology Sydney: OPUS - Open Publications of UTS Scholars
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Science & Technology, Male, Humans, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Dyspnea, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Cardiovascular Diseases, Fatigue
الوصف: BACKGROUND: Breathlessness and fatigue are common symptoms in older people. We aimed to evaluate how different breathlessness dimensions (overall intensity, unpleasantness, sensory descriptors, emotional responses) were associated with fatigue in elderly men. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional analysis of the population-based VAScular disease and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (VASCOL) study of 73-year old men. Breathlessness dimensions were assessed using the Dyspnoea-12 (D-12), Multidimensional Dyspnoea Profile (MDP), and the modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) scale. Fatigue was assessed using the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) questionnaire. Clinically relevant fatigue was defined as FACIT-F≤ 30 units. Scores were compared standardized as z-scores and analysed using linear regression, adjusted for body mass index, smoking, depression, cancer, sleep apnoea, prior cardiac surgery, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. RESULTS: Of 677 participants, 11.7% had clinically relevant fatigue. Higher breathlessness scores were associated with having worse fatigue; for D-12 total, -0.35 ([95% CI] -0.41 to -0.30) and for MDP A1, -0.24 (-0.30 to -0.18). Associations were similar across all the evaluated breathlessness dimensions even when adjusting for the potential confounders. CONCLUSION: Breathlessness assessed using D-12 and MDP was associated with worse fatigue in elderly men, similarly across different breathlessness dimensions.
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: Electronic-eCollection; application/pdf
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: PLoS One; PLoS One, 2023, 18, (12), pp. e0296016; http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174143
الاتاحة: http://hdl.handle.net/10453/174143
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.413CA664
قاعدة البيانات: BASE