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Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

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Coronary artery disease (CAD) and its consequences are significant problems in community healthcare. In Europe alone, it is estimated that CAD-associated mortality amounts to < 2 million individuals per year. The frequency of CAD increases with age in both sexes, constituting an important socioeconomic problem, and is the leading cause of death and disability [1]. The main goals of treating subjects with stable angina (SA) — one of the forms of CAD — is prolonging life and improving the quality of life (QoL) [2, 3]. Most people with SA have a good prognosis. However, those at very high risk, with marked left ventricular dysfunction, congestive heart failure (CHF), and/or critical coronary artery stenosis have a significantly greater risk of death. Improved survival is relatively easy to measure by clinical means, but methods used to classify the global burden of CAD (e.g., exercise stress test) are not sufficient to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

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Klocek, M., Kawecka-Jaszcz, K. (2013). Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease. In: Kawecka-Jaszcz, K., Klocek, M., Tobiasz-Adamczyk, B., Bulpitt, C.J. (eds) Health-Related Quality of Life in Cardiovascular Patients. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2769-5_3

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