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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

Impact of Comorbid Chronic Conditions to Quality of Life among Elderly Patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Vietnam.

Huong Van Nguyen, Tung Thanh Tran, Cuong Tat Nguyen, Tung Hoang Tran, Bach Xuan Tran, Carl A Latkin, Cyrus S H Ho, Roger C M Ho

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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16 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.

Huong Van NguyenDepartment of Neuroscience, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam. vanhuong73@hotmail.com.
Tung Thanh TranCenter of Excellence in Evidence-based Medicine, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ho Chi Minh 70000, Vietnam. tung.coentt@gmail.com.
Cuong Tat NguyenInstitute for Global Health Innovations, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam. cuong.ighi@gmail.com.
Tung Hoang TranDepartment of Lower Limb Surgery, Vietnam-Germany Hospital, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam. tranhoangtungvdh@gmail.com.
Bach Xuan TranInstitute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam. bach.ipmph@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-7827-8449
Carl A LatkinJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. carl.latkin@jhu.edu.
Cyrus S H HoDepartment of Psychological Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore 119074, Singapore. cyrushosh@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-7092-9566
Roger C M HoDepartment of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore. pcmrhcm@nus.edu.sg.ORCID 0000-0001-9629-4493
Johns Hopkins University · USTrường ĐH Nguyễn Tất Thành · VNDuy Tan University · VNHanoi Medical University · VNNational University Hospital · SGNational University of Singapore · SG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major cause of disease burden in the elderly population. This study aimed to measure the quality of life (QOL) among patients with T2DM and the associations between co-morbidities and QOL. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 194 patients with T2DM. The minimal clinically important difference (MCID) scores were used to indicate the clinically meaningful differences of comorbidities on quality of life. A Tobit regression was employed to find relationships between QOL and comorbidities. The mean scores of QOL domains were 50.8 (

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Quality of LifeAgedChronic DiseaseComorbidityCross-Sectional StudiesDiabetes ComplicationsDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMinimal Clinically Important DifferenceSurveys and QuestionnairesVietnamcomorbiditiesdiabeteselderlyquality of lifetype 2 diabetes mellitus

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PMID30781767
PMCPMC6406931
OpenAlexW2912134231

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