Tag: Multiple Sclerosis

Authors say increases in disability seen around age 50 years are likely due to other aging processes

MS cases more likely to have coded autonomic, cognitive, neurological, pain, psychiatric symptoms in the five years preceding diagnosis

Higher prevalence of cardiovascular disease, endocrine/metabolic disorders seen in postmenopausal than premenopausal women

Findings seen for relapses and active new lesions at two to five years

Control of relapses improved compared with fingolimod, natalizumab, and alemtuzumab

Nearly 80 percent of neurologists received payments; higher prescription volumes linked to higher receipt of payments

Lower odds of relapse seen among Medicare beneficiaries in prescription drug plans, Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug plans

All-cause physician visit rate ratios consistently elevated from 14 years before onset, peaking in the year before MS onset

Proportion of treated women began to decline 18 months before childbirth, reaching 27.9 percent at the estimated time of conception

For two of the four epigenetic clocks used, the difference in epigenetic age was significant