Huntington Disease Health Related Quality of Life, Function and Well Being: The Patient’s Perspective

  • Published on 01/31/2025
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Jesús Pérez-Pérez   1 ,2 ,3 , Sofía García-López   4 , José Luis López-Sendón   21  

1 Department of Neurology, Movement Disorders Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu I Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2 Sant Pau Institute of Biomedical Research (IIB-Sant Pau), Barcelona, Spain
3 Centro Investigación Biomedica en Red-Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Madrid, Spain
4 Medical Department, Roche Pharma, Madrid, Spain
21 Department of Neurology, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, IRYCIS, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

Background Limited information is available on patients' experience living with Huntington’s disease (HD). The primary objective of this study was to assess the health-related quality of life and well being of patients with HD.
Methods A non-interventional, cross-sectional study was conducted in 17 hospitals-based movement disorders units in Spain. Patients aged  18 years, genetically HD diagnosed [with a diagnostic...

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