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ReviewJournal of neurology2020

Long-term follow-up of multiple sclerosis studies and outcomes from early treatment of clinically isolated syndrome in the BENEFIT 11 study.

Hans-Peter Hartung, Jonas Graf, David Kremer

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Review in Journal of neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
  2. Review
  3. Can we change the natural course of inflammatory bowel disease?Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2023
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Pathways to cures for multiple sclerosis: A research roadmap.Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England) · 2022
    Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hans-Peter HartungDepartment of Neurology, UKD, Center for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, LVR Klinikum Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany. hans-peter.hartung@uni-duesseldorf.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0614-6989
Jonas GrafDepartment of Neurology, UKD, Center for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, LVR Klinikum Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
David KremerDepartment of Neurology, UKD, Center for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, LVR Klinikum Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with a diverse disease course involving inflammation and degeneration of neurons and axons. Multiple sclerosis results from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors and clinically several disease subtypes with marked variation in symptoms can be discerned. Disease-modifying therapies (DMTs) impact disease activity and outcome. Long-term follow-up studies of DMTs in MS have generally shown that the short-term effects in clinical trials are maintained for up to 21 years, e.g. in the case of interferon beta-1b. However, attainment can be a problem in these studies. On the one hand, so-called real-world studies can augment clinical trials by providing data on the long-term effectiveness and safety of DMTs but lack, on the other hand, randomization and may, in addition, also yield biased findings as a result of compliance issues. Long-term data from clinical trials in clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients have been limited but in the case of interferon beta-1b this aspect has been addressed over 11 years in the BENEFIT 11 trial. The results suggest that early treatment results in persistent long-term benefits including conversion to clinically definite MS (CDMS) as well as time to and risk of a first relapse. Here we primarily review the findings of the BENEFIT 11 trial in the context of long-term studies.

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Early DiagnosisGlatiramer AcetateHumansInterferon beta-1bMultiple SclerosisTreatment OutcomeGlatiramer AcetateInterferon beta-1bBENEFIT 11 studyClinically isolated syndromeEarly treatmentLong-term follow-upMultiple sclerosisReal world data

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