Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis

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espondilitis, calidad de vida relacionada con la salud, actividad inflamatoria.

Abstract

Introduction: Ankylosing spondylitis is a progressive, systemic, inflammatory disease that affects the joints of the spine, the sacroiliac joints, and adjacent soft tissues, such as tendons and ligaments, thus impacting quality of life.

Objective: To evaluate the health-related quality of life of patients with ankylosing spondylitis and relate it to variables of interest.

Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in the Rheumatology Service of the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital during the period from June 2020 to July 2022. Patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis according to the 1984 New York criteria, aged 19 years and older, were included. Patients with incomplete data in the medical history were excluded. The sample consisted of 120 patients.

Results: The average age was 45.0 ± 14.0 years. 63.3% of the patients were male (76.7%) and had white skin color (78.3%) and had human leukocyte antigen B27. Sociodemographic and clinical variables were associated with greater deterioration in health-related quality of life, as well as spinal mobility, functional capacity, and disease activity.

Conclusions: Health-related quality of life was significantly associated with pain, functional capacity, and high inflammatory activity.

Keywords: spondylitis; health-related quality of life; inflammatory activity.

 

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Author Biographies

Nelsa Dalmis Casas Figuerdo, Hospital hermanos Ameijeiras

Especialista de II grado en Reumatologia

profesor Auxiliar

Investoigador Agregado

Master en Enfermedades infecciosas

Dayana Yanes Amador, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras

Especialista de I grado en MGI

Especialista de I grado en Reumatologia

Araceli Chico Capote, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras

Jefa de servicio de Reumatologia

Especialista de II Grado en Reumatologia

Doctor en ciencias

Profesor e investigador Titular

Master en artroscopia

Miguel Hernán Estévez del Toro, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras

Especialista de II gradoe en Reumatologia

Doctor en ciencias

Profesor e investigador Titular

Yeniset Sánchez Bruzón, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras

Especialista de I grado en Reumatologia

profesor Auxiliar

Investigador Agregado

Ana Del Carmen Argüelles Zayas, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras

Especialista de II grado en Reumatologia

profesor e Investigador Auxiliar

Master en Enfermedades infecciosas

Published

2024-02-13

How to Cite

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Casas Figuerdo ND, Yanes Amador D, Chico Capote A, Estévez del Toro MH, Sánchez Bruzón Y, Argüelles Zayas ADC. Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Rev Cubana Med [Internet]. 2024 Feb. 13 [cited 2025 Mar. 14];64. Available from: https://revmedicina.sld.cu/index.php/med/article/view/3581

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