Impact of gender, age, and comorbidities on quality of life in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ingo, Baumann; Gunnar, Blumenstock; Ilse M, Zalaman; Mark, Praetorius; Christoph, Klingmann; Christian, Sittel; Peter K, Plinkert; Jay F, Piccirillo
- Source
- Rhinology. 45(4)
- Subject
- Lung Diseases
Male
Sex Factors
Chronic Disease
Age Factors
Diabetes Mellitus
Quality of Life
Humans
Female
Comorbidity
Middle Aged
Sinusitis
Rhinitis
- Language
- ISSN
- 0300-0729
To evaluate the impact of gender, age and comorbidities of health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) assessments in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.The prospective administration of the German Adapted Version of the Sino-Nasal Outcome Test 20 (SNOT-20 GAV) to patients with chronic rhinosinusitis. Two hundred and two patients with chronic rhinosinusitis filled out the questionnaire before functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) and again at the 3-month follow-up.Gender had a significant impact on the Overall Score (OS) and on the General Quality of Life Score (GQOL) of the SNOT-20 GAV but no influence on the disease-specific scores of 'Primary Nasal Symptoms' (PNS) and 'Secondary Rhinogenous Symptoms' (SRS). Age did not influence HR-QOL. Patients with comorbidities demonstrated lower HR-QOL scores.Women had significantly poorer QOL scores than men. It seems that the influence of gender reflects general HR-QOL views rather than illness-related expectations.