Journal article
Immunotherapy prevents long-term disability in relapsing multiple sclerosis over 15 years
Tomas Kalincik, Sifat Sharmin, Charles Malpas, Tim Spelman, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Maria Trojano, Guillermo Izquierdo, Alessandra Lugaresi, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Pierre Grammond, Vilija Jokubaitis, Anneke van der Walt, Francois Grand’Maison, Patrizia Sola, Diana Ferraro, Vahid Shaygannejad, Raed Alroughani Show all
Published : 2019
DOI: 10.1101/735662
Abstract
ABSTRACT Objective Whether immunotherapy improves long-term disability in multiple sclerosis has not been satisfactorily demonstrated. This study examined the effect of immunotherapy on long-term disability outcomes in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Methods We studied patients from MSBase followed for ≥1 year, with ≥3 visits, ≥1 visit per year and exposed to a multiple sclerosis therapy, and a subset of patients with ≥15-year follow-up. Marginal structural models were used to compare the hazard of 12-month confirmed increase and decrease in disability, EDSS step 6 and the incidence of relapses between treated and untreated periods. Marginal structural models were continuously re-adj..
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