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Open AccessQuality of life in couples living with Huntington’s disease: the role of patients’ and partners’ illness perceptions
Research suggests that chronically ill patients and their partners perceive illness differently, and that these differences have a negative impact on patients’ quality of life (QoL). This study assessed whethe...
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Inclusion body myositis
The clinical features of inclusion body myositis (IBM) were of minor importance in the design of consensus diagnostic criteria, mainly because of controversial views on the specificity of signs and symptoms, a...
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Health-related quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: Development and validation of a lupus specific symptom checklist
Reliable and sensitive measures are needed to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). No lupus specific questionnaires are available. This study describes the de...
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Living with huntington’s disease: illness perceptions, co** mechanisms, and spouses’ quality of life
Chronic illness not only affects the life of those suffering from Huntington’s disease but also threatens the quality of life (QOL) of their spouses. In this study, we focus on Huntington’s disease (HD). The i...
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Factors affecting the long-term outcome following non-living kidney transplantation
The aims of the study were threefold: (1) to analyse the long-term overall kidney graft survival within Eurotransplant for the period 1971–1987; (2) to examine the effect of matching for HLA over the years, wi...
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Sex ratio of the mutation frequencies in haemophilia A: estimation and meta-analysis
A hereditary disease with excess mortality such as haemophilia is maintained in the population by the occurrence of new cases, i.e. mutations. In haemophilia, mutations may arise in female or male ancestors of...