The levels of fatigue and weakness gMG patients experience are unpredictable and can change from hour-to-hour across the day.1–3 Multiple aspects of people's lives are impacted by the symptoms, including different emotional, physical and social aspects.*1 This makes planning future activities, socialising, working and simple daily tasks more challenging.1,2
* Based on a qualitative, cross sectional, non-interventional study involving interviews with 28 people living with gMG.
Almost half of patients living with gMG struggle with clinically meaningful anxiety, and more than a quarter experience depressive symptoms.*†4
* Based on a study to evaluate the predictors of HRQoL in 80 patients living with gMG in Brazil.4
† ‘Clinically meaningful’ was defined as a Hospital Anxiety and Depression score of ≥ 9.4
ADL, activity of daily living; gMG, generalised myasthenia gravis; IADL, instrumental activity of daily living.
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