Author Topic: (Abst.) Smoking affects interferon-beta treatment response in MS  (Read 109 times)

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Researchers at the Danish MS Center studied data from 834 RRMS patients taking interferon-beta and found that the relapse rate was higher for smokers than for nonsmokers.


Petersen et al., "Smoking affects the interferon beta treatment response in multiple sclerosis"--abstracted in PubMed, January 19, 2018:


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29343473
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