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http://dx.doi.org/10.5223/pghn.2022.25.4.321

A New Perspective on the Quality of Life of Children with Glycogen Storage Diseases  

Sobhy, Gihan Ahmed (National Liver Institute, Menoufia University)
El-Shabrawi, Mortada (Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University)
Safar, Heba (Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, AL-Fayoum University)
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Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition / v.25, no.4, 2022 , pp. 321-331 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: This study aimed to assess the quality of life (QoL) of children with glycogen storage disease (GSD) and their parents and to determine the impact of myopathies. Methods: A prospective case-control study was conducted at the Cairo University Children's Hospital and National Liver Institute, Menoufia University. A promising new style of questionnaire called the Stark Quality of Life Questionnaire was used to assess the quality of life. Results: Fifty-two children diagnosed with GSD (cases) and 55 age- and sex-matched healthy children (controls) were included. A statistically significant difference was found between cases and controls regarding food intake; mental behavior parameters such as mood, energy, and social contact; and physical behavior parameters such as running and tying shoelaces. Children with myopathies had significantly lower QoL scores in most of the parameters. Conclusion: GSDs alter children and their parents' mental and physical abilities. Lower QoL scores were detected in children with both skeletal myopathy and cardiomyopathy, but the difference was not statistically significant when compared with the children without myopathies.
Keywords
Quality of life; Glycogen storage diseases; Muscular diseases;
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