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AGE AND AGEING
Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 42-47Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afx121
Keywords
acute coronary syndrome; older people; treatment; quality of life
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- Norwegian Health Association [2010/FOM9432]
- Norwegian Health Association (Atti pluss) [2009-2-204]
- Ingrid and John Fredriksen Heart Foundation: A foundation established based on donation from a private person and is regulated by an annual elected committee at Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet
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Objective: in the After Eighty study (ClinicalTrials.gov. number, NCT01255540), patients aged 80 years or more, with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and unstable angina pectoris (UAP), were randomised to either an invasive or conservative management approach. We sought to compare the effects of these management strategies on health related quality of life (HRQOL) after 1 year. Methods: the After Eighty study was a prospective randomised controlled multicenter trial. In total, 457 patients aged 80 or over, with NSTEMI or UAP, were randomised to either an invasive strategy (n = 229, mean age: 84.7 years), involving early coronary angiography, with immediate evaluation for percutaneous coronary intervention, coronary artery bypass graft, optimal medical therapy, or to a conservative strategy (n = 228, mean age: 84.9 years). The Short Form 36 health survey (SF-36) was used to assess HRQOL at baseline, and at the 1-year follow-up. Results: baseline SF-36 completion was achieved for 208 and 216 patients in the invasive and conservative groups, respectively. A total of 137 in the invasive group and 136 patients in the conservative group completed the SF-36 form at followup. When comparing the changes from follow-up to baseline (delta) no significant changes in quality-of-life scores were observed between the two strategies in any of the domains, expect for a small but statistically significant difference in bodily pain. This difference in only one of the SF-36 subscales may not necessarily be clinically significant. Conclusion: from baseline to the 1 year follow-up, only minor differences in change of HRQOL as measured by SF-36 were seen by comparing an invasive and conservative strategy.
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