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Association of health-related quality of life with health examination and lifestyles of government managers in China

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In order to study the association of each item of a health examination and lifestyles with health-related quality of life (HRQoL), a cross-sectional survey by a self-administered questionnaire using the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12, version 1) was conducted on 145 government managers that took health examinations in Tongji Hospital, Wuhan, China during 2005. The results showed that the determinations of organic functions including BMI, hemoglobin, blood platelet count, urine protein, urine WBC and lipid metabolism (LDL) were associated with HRQoL. The lifestyle items including age, sex, life satisfaction drinking alcohol and kind of alcohol drunk, drinking tea, sleep quality and adhering to bedtime, working overtime, work stress were associated with HRQoL in the multiple regression models. Sex, age and life satisfaction were the lifestyle items most closely associated with HRQoL, while LDL, hemoglobin and urine protein were the health examination items most closely associated HRQoL. This study revealed that both lifestyle and health examination items were associated with HRQoL.

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  1. Department of Health Care, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Hou Changrong  (侯长荣)

  2. Institute of Environmental Medicine, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong Unversity of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Lü Bin  (吕斌)

  3. Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430030, China

    Lu Zuxun  (卢祖询) & Qin Shilong  (覃世龙)

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HOU Changrong, female, born in 1968, M.D., Ph.D.

This project was supported by a grant from Science-Technology Project of Hubei province of China (No. 2005AA301C35).

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Hou, C., Lü, B., Lu, Z. et al. Association of health-related quality of life with health examination and lifestyles of government managers in China. J. Huazhong Univ. Sc. Technol. 27, 343–348 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11596-007-0333-5

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