Health behavior and health-related quality of life in patients with a high risk of cardiovascular disease

Abstract

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is measuring a patient’s experience of his health status and represents an outcome of medical interventions. Existing data proves that a healthy lifestyle is positively associated with HRQoL in all age groups. Patients with a high risk for cardiovascular disease typically led an unhealthy lifestyle combined with risk diseases. We aimed to analyse these characteristics and their reflection in HRQoL.

Keywords

• high risk
• cardiovascular diseases
• hrqol
• risk factors
• visoko tveganje
• bolezni srca in ožilja
• z zdravjem povezana kakovost življenja
• dejavniki tveganja