Endocrine Abstracts

Objectives: Quality of life (QoL) is severely affected in Graves’ disease (GD) but long-term longitudinal assessment of QoL is lacking. Furthermore, whether QoL is comparable to controls after treatment of GD is unclear. For the first time, we present serial, longitudinal data on thyroid-related QoL during 24 months of follow-up in a cohort of newly diagnosed GD patients. In addition, we compare QoL in GD and controls.Methods: All patients were tre...

Introduction: Some methodologists have raised concern about the validity of the standard method of assessing patient-reported outcomes, i.e. retrospective questionnaires. Repeated momentary measurements have been introduced to avoid recall bias and provide ecological validity. Although having theoretical advantages, the measurement properties remain unsubstantiated. This study examines the relationship between the retrospective thyroid-related quality of life patient-reported ...