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Multiple Sclerosis => MS - RESEARCH AND NEWS => Topic started by: agate on June 11, 2019, 09:10:42 am

Title: (JAMA) Changes in risk of reaching MS disability milestones in recent decades...
Post by: agate on June 11, 2019, 09:10:42 am

From JAMA Neurology (June 11, 2019), a report on a large Swedish study, "Changes in the risk of reaching MS disability milestones in recent decades: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Sweden":

http://bit.ly/2KIRkgq


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Conclusions and Relevance

Risk of reaching major disability milestones has significantly decreased over the last decade in patients with relapsing-onset MS in Sweden. Several factors could potentially be responsible for this observation. However, given that no change was seen in disability accrual of patients with progressive-onset MS and the absence of efficacious treatment option in this group, increased use of more efficacious disease-modifying treatments could be a possible driver of this change.