Results
Patients included in this study displayed a deteriorated physical capacity (peak VO2 less than 20 mL/Kg/min), significant functional impairment as measured by the NYHA, and a high score for the Portuguese version of the MLHFQ (i.e., Questionário de Qualidade de Vida Minnesota - QQVM) (Table 1). No difference was found for the QQVM score between the ischemic group and the non-ischemic group (53±15 and 42±19, respectively; p=0.57; CI = -4.5212 to 27.1640).
The Portuguese version of the MLHFQ had the same structure and metrics of the original version (Appendix 1). The MQLQ demonstrated concordance between its utilization and re-utilization (ri=0.97; p