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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2021

The impact of clinical symptoms and endoscopic and histologic disease activity on health-related quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis following treatment with multimatrix mesalazine.

Aaron Yarlas, Mary Kaye Willian, Arpita Nag

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Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Aaron YarlasQualityMetric, 1301 Atwood Avenue, Suite 216E, Johnston, RI, 02919, USA. ayarlas@qualitymetric.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4600-259X
Mary Kaye WillianShire, 725 Chesterbrook Boulevard, Wayne, PA, 19087, USA.
Arpita NagShire, 300 Shire Way, Lexington, MA, 02421, USA.

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purposeStudies of patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) report that reduced clinical symptoms and endoscopic activity predict better health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, no study has examined the joint and unique associations of clinical and endoscopic activity with HRQoL, nor of histologic inflammation and HRQoL. These post hoc analyses evaluated whether reduced clinical, endoscopic, and histologic disease activity were uniquely associated with improved HRQoL for adults with active mild-to-moderate UC receiving once-daily 4.8 g/day multimatrix mesalazine for 8 weeks.

methodsAssessments at baseline and week 8 (i.e., treatment completion) included clinical and endoscopic activity (modified UC-Disease Activity Index), histology (Geboes scoring), and HRQoL (Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire [SIBDQ]; SF-12v2

resultsWithin the analysis sample (n = 717), patients with reduced clinical and endoscopic activity had significantly larger improvements in all HRQoL domains (p < 0.001), as did patients in both endoscopic and clinical remission compared to patients in endoscopic remission only (p < 0.05). Patients with histologic activity post-treatment scored significantly worse on all HRQoL domains than patients with no activity (p < 0.05). Correlations and regression models found that decreases in clinical and endoscopic activity were associated with improvements in HRQoL domain scores.

conclusionsClinical symptoms and mucosal health have separable, distinct impacts on UC patients' HRQoL.

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AdultColitis, UlcerativeEndoscopyFemaleHumansMaleMesalamineQuality of LifeSeverity of Illness IndexMesalamineClinical symptomsEndoscopyHistologyQuality of lifeUlcerative colitis

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PMID33651279
PMCPMC8233235

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