QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PANCREATITIS AND RELATED ANEMIA

Abstract

The study of QOL is one of the urgent problems in medicine in the world. The quality of life (QOL) is a reliable and valid instrument for measuring quality of life from the perspective of the patient. The scale is often used with confidence in patients with chronic diseases requiring long-term therapy. The cognitive impairment in young women, a greater risk of mortality and hospitalizations in adults and especially in elderly, dysfunction of thermoregulation and immune system, gastrointestinal disorders, Helicobacter pylori infection are more found in patients with CP and related anemia, which reduces QOL even more. Our study of QOL in patients with chronic pancreatitis (CP) and CP with related anemic syndrome by questionnaires SF-36 and GSRS, demonstrated significantly lower level of QOL in patients with related anemia. This objectively affirms an aggravating role of related anemia in the course of main disease.