title: Quality of Life on Arterial Hypertension: Validity of Known Groups of MINICHAL.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the care of hypertension, it is important that health professionals possess available tools that allow evaluating the impairment of the health-related quality of life, according to the severity of hypertension and the risk for cardiovascular events. Among the instruments developed for the assessment of health-related quality of life, there is the Mini-Cuestionario of Calidad de Vida en la Hipertensión Arterial (MINICHAL) recently adapted to the Brazilian culture.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To estimate the validity of known groups of the Brazilian version of the MINICHAL regarding the classification of risk for cardiovascular events, symptoms, severity of dyspnea and target-organ damage.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data of 200 hypertensive outpatients concerning sociodemographic and clinical information and health-related quality of life were gathered by consulting the medical charts and the application of the Brazilian version of MINICHAL. The Mann-Whitney test was used to compare health-related quality of life in relation to symptoms and target-organ damage. The Kruskal-Wallis test and ANOVA with ranks transformation were used to compare health-related quality of life in relation to the classification of risk for cardiovascular events and intensity of dyspnea, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The MINICHAL was able to discriminate health-related quality of life in relation to symptoms and kidney damage, but did not discriminate health-related quality of life in relation to the classification of risk for cardiovascular events.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Brazilian version of the MINICHAL is a questionnaire capable of discriminating differences on the health-related quality of life regarding dyspnea, chest pain, palpitation, lipothymy, cephalea and renal damage.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Lúcia Soares
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Soutello
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberta Cunha Matheus
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernanda Freire
authors.initials: FF
authors.lastname: Jannuzzi
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thaís Moreira
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: São-João
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gabriela Giordano
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Martinix
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Wilson
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Nadruz
authors.affiliation: Université Laval, Canadá
authors.forename: Maria-Cecília Bueno Jayme
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Gallani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001938:Brazil; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000150:complications; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D058437:Hypertensive Retinopathy / Q000150:complications; D017379:Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D012307:Risk Factors; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult