Medical resource consumption and quality of life in peripheral arterial disease in Korea: PAD outcomes (PADO) research

Seung Woon Rha, Seung Hyuk Choi, Doo Il Kim, Dong Woon Jeon, Jae Hwan Lee, Kyung Soon Hong, Tae Joon Cha, Jang Hyun Cho, Sang Kon Lee, Yong Hwan Park, Woo Jung Park, Hyun Joo Kim, Young Joo Kim, Juneyoung Lee, Donghoon Choi

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    Abstract

    Background and Objectives: We aimed to investigate the history of medical resource consumption and quality of life (QoL) in peripheral arterial disease (PAD) patients in Korea. Methods: This was a prospective, multi-center (23 tertiary-hospitals, division of cardiology), non-interventional study. Adult patients (age ≥20 years) suffering from PAD for the last 12-month were enrolled in the study if they met with any of following; 1) ankle-brachial index (ABI) ≤0.9, 2) lower-extremity artery stenosis on computed tomography angiography ≥50%, or 3) peak-systolic-velocity-ratio (PSVR) on ultrasound ≥2.0. Medical chart review was used to assess patient characteristics/treatment patterns while the history of medical resource consumption and QoL data were collected using a patient survey. QoL was measured using EuroQoL-5-dimensions-3-level (EQ-5D-3L) score system, and the factors associated with QoL were analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. Results: This study included 1,260 patients (age: 69.8 years, male: 77.0%). The most prevalent comorbidities were hypertension (74.8%), hyperlipidemia (51.0%) and diabetes-mellitus (50.2%). The 94.1% of the patients took pharmacotherapy including aspirin (76.2%), clopidogrel (53.3%), and cilostazol (33.6%). The 12.6% of the patients were receiving smoking cessation education/pharmacotherapy. A considerable number of patients (500 patients, 40.0%) had visit history to another hospital before diagnosis/treatment at the current hospital, with visits to orthopedic units (50.4%) being the most common. At the time, 29% (or higher) of the patients were already experiencing symptoms of critical limb ischemia. Baseline EQ-5D index and EQ VAS were 0.64±0.24 and 67.49±18.29. Factors significantly associated with QoL were pharmacotherapy (B=0.05053; p=0.044) compared to no pharmacotherapy, and Fontaine stage improvement/maintain stage I (B=0.04448; p<0.001) compared to deterioration/maintain stage II-IV. Conclusions: Increase in disease awareness for earlier diagnosis and provision of adequate pharmacotherapy is essential to reduce disease burden and improve QoL of Korean PAD patients.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)813-825
    Number of pages13
    JournalKorean Circulation Journal
    Volume48
    Issue number9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2018 Sept

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    Publisher Copyright:
    Copyright © 2018. The Korean Society of Cardiology.

    Keywords

    • Disease burden
    • Peripheral arterial disease
    • Quality of life

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Internal Medicine
    • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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