Interactions of Comorbidity and Five Simple Environmental Unhealthy Habits Concerning Physical and Mental Quality of Life in the Clinical Setting

Diego Martínez-Urbistondo, Rafael Suarez del Villar, Omar Ramos-Lopez, María Agud Fernández, Ramón Costa Segovia, Andrea Domínguez, Rocío García de la Garza, María López-Cano Gómez, Laura Prósper Ramos, Rodrigo San-Cristobal, Lidia Daimiel, Paula Villares Fernández and Jose Alfredo Martinez
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Diego Martínez-Urbistondo: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Rafael Suarez del Villar: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Omar Ramos-Lopez: Medicine and Psychology School, Autonomous University of Baja California, Tijuana 22390, Mexico
María Agud Fernández: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Ramón Costa Segovia: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Andrea Domínguez: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Rocío García de la Garza: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
María López-Cano Gómez: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Laura Prósper Ramos: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Rodrigo San-Cristobal: Precision Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health Program, IMDEA Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Lidia Daimiel: Nutritional Control of the Epigenome Group, Precision Nutrition and Obesity Program, IMDEA Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Paula Villares Fernández: Internal Medicine Department, Hospital HM Sanchinarro, HM Hospitales, 28050 Madrid, Spain
Jose Alfredo Martinez: Precision Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health Program, IMDEA Food Institute, CEI UAM + CSIC, 28049 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-13

Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine the interactions between comorbidity and five lifestyle single habits concerning different subscales of quality of life (QoL). For the study, 302 patients were consecutively recruited at the internal medicine department of a tertiary teaching hospital. Lifestyle habits, comorbidities and QoL were recorded according to validated questionnaires. Five single unhealthy habits, such as tobacco consumption, dietary intake of ultra-processed pastries, raw nuts or carbonated drinks, sleep time and physical activity patterns were selected according to previously published data. The main outcomes of the study were the scores of the eight subscales of the SF-36 QoL survey. The aggregate of unhealthy habits showed statistically significant association to every category in the SF-36 questionnaire, both in the univariate and the multivariate analysis when adjusting by age, sex and comorbidity. An interaction was found between comorbidity and unhealthy habits in both physical and mental summaries of SF-36. In conclusion, the lifestyle assessment according to five unhealthy habits is associated with a worse QoL. The interaction between comorbidity and unhealthy habits is especially clear in diseased patients due to the interplay between illness and lifestyle in the prediction of QoL.

Keywords: health-related quality of life; comorbidity; unhealthy habits; lifestyle; physical QoL; emotional QoL (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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