Internal medicine journal
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Internal medicine journal · Jul 2012
Multicenter StudyQuality of life: a potentially useful measure to indicate subclinical flares in Crohn disease.
While quality of life (QoL) is a well-recognised outcome measure of Crohn disease (CD) activity, its influence on other outcome measures, including exacerbation of CD is poorly understood. If QoL measures were to be associated with intestinal inflammatory activity, they might be useful for early detection of subclinical flares. ⋯ The close association between QoL and subsequent flares suggests that QoL measures might be useful in detecting upcoming flares before they become clinically apparent.