接受甲状腺替代疗法的甲状腺功能低下患者的生活质量,日常功能和症状:一项荷兰调查
Ellen Molewijk1, Eric Fliers2, Koen Dreijerink3
1University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology
|February 15, 2024
概括
接受甲状腺替代疗法的甲状腺功能下降患者的生活质量和日常功能显著降低,尽管接受了治疗,但症状仍然存在. 需要进一步的研究,以改善甲状腺功能低下症的治疗选择.
科学领域:
- 内分泌学 在内分泌学.
- 甲状腺疾病 甲状腺疾病
- 生活质量研究 研究 生命质量研究
背景情况:
- 甲状腺功能低下症是一种常见的内分泌疾病,通常用甲状腺替代疗法治疗.
- 在接受治疗的甲状腺功能低下患者中,残留症状和生活质量受损 (QoL) 可能会持续存在.
- 了解这些残留投诉对于优化患者护理至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查接受甲状腺替代疗法的荷兰甲状腺下降患者残留病情的性质和程度.
- 测量与健康有关的生活质量,日常功能,以及与甲状腺功能低下相关的症状.
- 为了比较治疗过的甲状腺功能低下患者和对照个体之间的这些措施.
主要方法:
- 使用在线调查收集甲状腺特异性 QoL (ThyPRO),日常功能和甲状腺功能低下症状 (ThySHI) 的数据.
- 这项研究包括接受治疗的甲状腺功能低下患者 (n=1195) 和对照个体 (n=236).
- 患者提供甲状腺血值和药物详细信息.
主要成果:
- 与对照人群相比,甲状腺功能下降的患者表现出显著下降的QOL (科恩d=1.04) 和减少的日常功能.
- 近80%的患者报告说,尽管服用药物和甲状腺水平处于范围之内,但仍有投诉,75%的人希望获得更好的治疗选择.
- 甲状腺功能低下患者的甲状腺功能低下相关症状比对照患者强度高2.8倍;在52%的患者中观察到低T3水平.
结论:
- 接受治疗的甲状腺功能低下患者表现出 QoL 和日常功能显著降低,并增加症状强度,即使甲状腺水平正常化.
- QoL与血清甲状腺参数无关,这表明其他因素有助于持续的投诉.
- 未来的研究应该集中在这些持续性症状的起源和增强型甲状腺功能低下症治疗策略的开发上.
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