Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: A Possible Association Between Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome, Sarcopenia and Chronic Pain
Brief Summary:
Aim: Pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX) is a systemic disease of connective tissue, it can also contribute to sarcopenia and chronic musculoskeletal pain with common pathways.
Methods: A total of 96-patients were enrolled in this study and divided into two groups: PEX-positive (n=48) and PEX-negative (n=48) patients.
The variables: the demographic data, sarcopenia parameters (SARC-F-questionnaire, hand-grip strength, chair-rise test, gait speed) and pain parameters (having any chronic musculoskeletal pain, pain regions and visual analogue scale-pain).