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Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Reduced functional capacity in patients with chagas disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis
Authors: Henrique Silveira Costa
Márcia Maria Oliveira Lima
Fábio Silva Martins da Costa
Ana Thereza Chaves
Maria Carmo Pereira Nunes
Pedro Henrique Scheidt Figueiredo
Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha
Abstract: in which functional impairment is detectable remains uncertain. The present study compared functional capacity between healthy controls and patients with different clinical forms of Chagas disease. A systematic review and meta-analysis (PROSPERO database CRD42017058353) was conducted following a search of the MEDLINE, Web of Science, CINAHL, and LILACS databases from September to December 2017 for articles published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, with no date restrictions. We included studies that compared the VO2peak between healthy and Chagas disease patients, stratified according to 3 clinical forms [no apparent cardiac disease, non-dilated Chagas heart disease (CHD), and dilated CHD]. Seven cross-sectional studies were included. Chagas disease patients without apparent cardiac disease (n=208) had VO2 peak values [mean difference, -1.55ml/kg/min; 95% confidence interval (CI), -4.98ml/kg/min to 1.88ml/kg/min] similar to those of healthy controls (n=105; p=0.38, I2=52%). In non-dilated CHD (n=159), VO2peak was 8.71ml/kg/min lower (95% CI, -13.99 to -3.42ml/kg/min) than in healthy controls (n=59; p=0.001, I2=75%). VO2 peak was also significantly lower (mean difference, -9.30ml/kg/min; 95% CI, -11.34 to -7.25ml/kg/min) in dilated CHD patients (n=131) than in healthy controls (n=53; p<0.001, I2=0%). Exercise capacity in Chagas disease patients without apparent cardiac disease is similar to that in healthy controls. Functional impairment in Chagas disease is detectable in the early stages of cardiac involvement, even in the absence of systolic dysfunction and signs of heart failure.
Subject: Chagas disease
Functional Residual Capacity
Exercise Test
Systematic Review
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: MED - DEPARTAMENTO DE CLÍNICA MÉDICA
Rights: Acesso Aberto
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1590/0037-8682-0158-2018
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/62531
Issue Date: 2018
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0158-2018
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
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