Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients
Objective: A study was made of heart transplant patient perception of the influence of oral health upon quality of life, based on the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) questionnaire validated for Spanish speaking subjects. Design: A cross-sectional evaluation was made of the heart transplant pati...
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pubmed-34761042012-10-19 Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients Segura-Saint-Gerons, Rafael Segura-Saint-Gerons, Carmen Alcántara-Luque, Rosario Arizón-del Prado, José M. Foronda-Garcia-Hidalgo, Carla Blanco-Hungría, Antonio Review-Article Objective: A study was made of heart transplant patient perception of the influence of oral health upon quality of life, based on the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) questionnaire validated for Spanish speaking subjects. Design: A cross-sectional evaluation was made of the heart transplant patients followed-up on in the Heart Transplantation Unit of Reina Sofía University Hospital (Spain), using the OHIP-49 questionnaire. The included patients were all over age 18 and signed the corresponding informed consent to participation in the study. The data were entered in a database and analyzed using the SPSS statistical package. Results: A total of 150 heart transplant patients (118 males and 32 females, with a mean age of 54.94 years; range 19-79) were studied. The subjects showed a poor perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life, with a mean score of 24.43 out of a possible total of 196 points. Women showed significantly improved perception of the influence of oral health upon quality of life versus men. Conclusions: The subjects in our study showed a poor perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life. Medicina Oral S.L. 2012-05 2011-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3476104/ /pubmed/22143721 http://dx.doi.org/10.4317/medoral.17542 Text en Copyright: © 2012 Medicina Oral S.L. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Segura-Saint-Gerons, Rafael Segura-Saint-Gerons, Carmen Alcántara-Luque, Rosario Arizón-del Prado, José M. Foronda-Garcia-Hidalgo, Carla Blanco-Hungría, Antonio Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Segura-Saint-Gerons, Rafael Segura-Saint-Gerons, Carmen Alcántara-Luque, Rosario Arizón-del Prado, José M. Foronda-Garcia-Hidalgo, Carla Blanco-Hungría, Antonio |
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Segura-Saint-Gerons, Rafael |
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Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life in heart transplant patients |
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Objective: A study was made of heart transplant patient perception of the influence of oral health upon quality of life, based on the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP-49) questionnaire validated for Spanish speaking subjects.
Design: A cross-sectional evaluation was made of the heart transplant patients followed-up on in the Heart Transplantation Unit of Reina Sofía University Hospital (Spain), using the OHIP-49 questionnaire. The included patients were all over age 18 and signed the corresponding informed consent to participation in the study.
The data were entered in a database and analyzed using the SPSS statistical package.
Results: A total of 150 heart transplant patients (118 males and 32 females, with a mean age of 54.94 years; range 19-79) were studied. The subjects showed a poor perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life, with a mean score of 24.43 out of a possible total of 196 points.
Women showed significantly improved perception of the influence of oral health upon quality of life versus men.
Conclusions: The subjects in our study showed a poor perceived influence of oral health upon quality of life.
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