Quality of life and functional disability in patients with interstitial lung disease related to Systemic Sclerosis.

Background: Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) is a connective disease impairing respiratory function. SSc worsens patients' Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ-DI), Short Form 36 Physical and Mental Component Summary (SF36-PCS and SF36-MCS). The aim of this work is to verify whether there is correlation between quality of life and lung interstitiopathy in SSc patients.