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SUBMITTER: Mannisto JME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6779698 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in endocrinology 20191001
<b>Background:</b> Quality of life (QoL) has not been studied in patients with congenital hyperinsulinism (CHI). <b>Objectives:</b> To examine whether the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is worsened in patients with persistent or transient CHI. <b>Methods:</b> We studied HRQoL of 65 children with CHI aged 3-17 years (60% males) recruited from the nationwide CHI registry. The median ages were 9.6 (range 3.5-16.3) and 7.4 (3.1-17.9) years in persistent (P-CHI, <i>n</i> = 33) and transient ( ...[more]