Health related quality of life and clinical outcomes following acute myocardial infarction: National longitudinal cohort study
A team in Leeds are using health databases to help doctors improve the long-term care of heart attack survivors. Thanks to advances in medical care for people who’ve had a heart attack, more people than ever are surviving. Yet many go on to have long-term health problems caused by their heart attack, which affects their quality of life and how long they live. There is an urgent need for the long-term care of heart attack survivors to match the progress made in short-term heart attack survival. This research will link up the large quantity of data that exists about the health of heart attack survivors, to give us the clearest picture yet. One database – called EMMACE – comprises data from 10,000 heart attack survivors. It records how they judged their health-related quality of life on four occasions in the year following their heart attack. The other database is of hospital episode statistics (HES), such as hospital admissions and deaths. The aim is to see whether a person’s self-reported quality of life can give us early warning of serious health problems. This will be the first robust research into the relationship between these things, so this study could lead to improvements in the long-term care of heart attack survivors.
Project details
| Grant amount | £256,748 |
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| Grant type | Project Grants |
| Application type | Project Grant |
| Start Date | 01 April 2020 |
| Duration | 3 years |
| Reference | PG/19/54/34511 |
| Status | In Progress |
