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Quality of life in patients with minimal change nephrotic syndrome.
Article in TheScientificWorldJournal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Podocytopathies.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025Review
- A "Trial within a Cohort" platform for pediatric clinical trials on idiopathic nephrotic syndrome: scope, objectives, and design of the retrospective-prospective cohort PIN'SNP.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025Article
- Racial-ethnic differences in health-related quality of life among adults and children with glomerular disease.Glomerular diseases · 2021Article
- Persons' Experiences of Suffering from Nephrotic Syndrome.Journal of renal care · 2020Article
- Health-related quality of life in glomerular disease.Kidney international · 2019Article
- Effective treatment with rituximab for the maintenance of remission in frequently relapsing minimal change disease.Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2016Article
- Simvastatin ameliorates renal lipidosis through the suppression of renal CXCL16 expression in mice with adriamycin-induced nephropathy.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2015Article
- Design of a User-Centered Electronic Health Tool for Glomerular Disease Management.Glomerular diseasesArticle
- The effect of blended training on the quality of life of children with nephrotic syndrome.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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Abstract
aimThe goal of the study was to investigate quality of life (QOL) in adult patients with minimal change nephrotic syndrome (MCNS) and to test the relationship of QOL with the level of self-care. MATERIALS AND
methodsWe distributed two questionnaires to 30 outpatients with MCNS. The MOS 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36v2) was used to examine health-related QOL in comparison with normative data from the general Japanese population and a population with two chronic diseases. SF-36v2 consists of 36 questions classified into 8 subscales. We also used the Self-Care Behavior Scale for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), which consists of 31 questions with 4 subscales.
resultsThe SF-36v2 social functioning subscale was most impaired and bodily pain was least affected in patients with MCNS. The self-care subscales of information/communication and positive behavior had positive correlations with the QOL subscales of mental health (P<0.05) and vitality (P<0.05). The correlation between social functioning and information/communication was close to significant (P=0.051).
conclusionIn MCNS, social functioning was particularly impaired. Our results suggest that better self-care can have a positive impact on QOL in patients with MCNS.
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