Impaired physical quality of life in patients with diastolic dysfunction associates more strongly with neurohumoral activation than with echocardiographic parameters: quality of life in diastolic dysfunction.

  • Frank Edelmann
  • Raoul Stahrenberg
  • Friederike Polzin
  • Anke Kockskämper
  • Hans-Dirk Düngen
  • André Duvinage
  • Lutz Binder
  • Jan Kunde
  • Martin Scherer
  • Götz Gelbrich
  • Gerd Hasenfuss
  • Burkert Pieske
  • Rolf Wachter
  • Christoph Herrmann-Lingen

Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) is impaired in diastolic heart failure. Little is known about QoL in diastolic dysfunction (DD) without heart failure.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0002-8703
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21473981