{"id":2672,"date":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/vascular-malformations-contribute-to-lower-quality-of-life\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:08:05","slug":"vascular-malformations-contribute-to-lower-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/23\/vascular-malformations-contribute-to-lower-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Vascular Malformations Contribute to Lower Quality of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Patients report increased pain and psychosocial distress specifically<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, March 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Patients with vascular malformations (VAMs) have increased pain and psychosocial distress, compared with the general U.S. population, according to a review published online March 21 in <i>JAMA Dermatology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Henry L. Nguyen, M.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify studies that used validated tools to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of persons with VAMs with the general U.S. population.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified 11 studies representing 692 patients with VAMs, but only six studies (320 patients) were included in the meta-analysis. Compared to the general U.S. population, those with VAMs had lower 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey scores for bodily pain (P = 0.02) and mental health (P = 0.03).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pain and psychological morbidity are associated with poorer HRQoL and may serve as indicators for quality of life,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamadermatology\/fullarticle\/2674252\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamadermatology\/article-abstract\/2674247\" target=\"_new\">Editorial (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients report increased pain and psychosocial distress specifically<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}