PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Stuart Pocock AU - David B Brieger AU - Ruth Owen AU - Jiyan Chen AU - Mauricio G Cohen AU - Shaun Goodman AU - Christopher B Granger AU - José C Nicolau AU - Tabassome Simon AU - Dirk Westermann AU - Satoshi Yasuda AU - Katarina Hedman AU - Carl Mellström AU - Karolina Andersson Sundell AU - Richard Grieve TI - Health-related quality of life 1–3 years post-myocardial infarction: its impact on prognosis AID - 10.1136/openhrt-2020-001499 DP - 2021 Feb 01 TA - Open Heart PG - e001499 VI - 8 IP - 1 4099 - http://openheart.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001499.short 4100 - http://openheart.bmj.com/content/8/1/e001499.full SO - Open Heart2021 Feb 01; 8 AB - Objective To assess associations of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with patient profile, resource use, cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality in stable patients post-myocardial infarction (MI).Methods The global, prospective, observational TIGRIS Study enrolled 9126 patients 1–3 years post-MI. HRQoL was assessed at enrolment and 6-month intervals using the patient-reported EuroQol-5 dimension (EQ-5D) questionnaire, with scores anchored at 0 (worst possible) and 1 (perfect health). Resource use, CV events and mortality were recorded during 2-years’ follow-up. Regression models estimated the associations of index score at enrolment with patient characteristics, resource use, CV events and mortality over 2-years’ follow-up.Results Among 8978 patients who completed the EQ-5D questionnaire, 52% reported ‘some’ or ‘severe’ problems on one or more health dimensions. Factors associated with a lower index score were: female sex, older age, obesity, smoking, higher heart rate, less formal education, presence of comorbidity (eg, angina, stroke), emergency room visit in the previous 6 months and non-ST-elevation MI as the index event. Compared with an index score of 1 at enrolment, a lower index score was associated with higher risk of all-cause death, with an adjusted rate ratio of 3.09 (95% CI 2.20 to 4.31), and of a CV event, with a rate ratio of 2.31 (95% CI 1.76 to 3.03). Patients with lower index score at enrolment had almost two times as many hospitalisations over 2-years’ follow-up.Conclusions Clinicians managing patients post-acute coronary syndrome should recognise that a poorer HRQoL is clearly linked to risk of hospitalisations, major CV events and death.Trial registration number ClinicalTrials.gov Registry (NCT01866904) (https://clinicaltrials.gov).