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Abstract
Recently, QoL improvement has been shown as one of the most important treatment goals in HF, particularly with the documented increase in life expectancy [9, 10]. [...]bearing in mind the expected short life expectancy in these patients, QoL seems to be an important objective that needs to always be addressed [11-13]. [...]in those studies the relationship of QoL and LV EF remains not certain [25-27]. [...]the aim of this prospective study was to assess the relationship between MLHFQ and exercise capacity in HF patients. Results interpretation MLHFQ irrespective of its components; physical or emotional seems to be a good measure of exercise capacity, since it correlated strongly with the 6-MWT distance in the HF group irrespective of EF. [...]it could be used to reflect the overall cardiac status, when used to evaluate patients’ response to treatment. [...]it seems that predictors of the limited exercise capacity differed fundamentally according to the cardiac physiology.