[Type 2 Diabetes and Short Form 36-items Health Survey].
OBJECTIVE
This study explores the quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes with the French Short Form 36-items Health Survey which involves eight health concepts: physical functioning, body pain, role limitations due to physical health problems, role limitations due to personal or emotional problems, general mental health, social functioning, energy and general health perceptions.


METHODS
The French SF 36 was proposed to 282 diabetic patients, 70 years of age and under, randomly selected from the database of Social Security healthcare office in Lyon (total: 4 644 patients). 160 healthy controls, matched for age and sex, were enrolled. 12 questionaires were not analysed because of linguistic difficulties.


RESULTS
The data show that quality of life is altered into T2D compared with the control population in all 8 dimensions of SF-36 items Health Survey.


CONCLUSIONS
Quality of life is an interesting element to take into account for practitioners during management of diabetic patients, that could prove useful in order to obtain a better compliance of the patients.
Clouet
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Service Médical de l'Assurance Maladie, Régime Général de Lyon, pôle Santé Publique, 102 rue Masséna, 69471 Lyon Cedex 06, France. francois.clouet@elsm-lyon.cnamts.fr
Excler-Cavailher
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G
Christophe
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B
Masson
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Fasquel
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires