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ArticleJournal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry2025

Association of body mass index and clinical response in patients receiving ofatumumab for treatment of multiple sclerosis.

Pia Winter, Franziska Axhausen, Stephanie Wolff, Alice Grizzle Willison, Saskia Räuber, Franz Felix Konen, Stefanie Schreiber, Philipp Schwenkenbecher, Ramona Hagler, Tobias Ruck and 7 more

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Article in Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Digital signatures of fatigue and wearing-off symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis under natalizumab.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  2. Discontinuation of ocrelizumab in multiple sclerosis: reoccurrence of disease activity.Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry · 2026
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  5. T lymphopenia in multiple sclerosis patients treated with ofatumumab: Even with consideration for CD3Multiple sclerosis journal - experimental, translational and clinical
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Pia WinterDepartment of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Franziska AxhausenDepartment of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Stephanie WolffDepartment of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Alice Grizzle WillisonDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Saskia RäuberDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8901-5572
Franz Felix KonenDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.
Stefanie SchreiberDepartment of Neurology, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4439-4374
Philipp SchwenkenbecherDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.
Ramona HaglerDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Tobias RuckDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6332-8650
Hagen B HuttnerDepartment of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Christoph KleinschnitzDepartment of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.
Mark PawlitzkiDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Thomas SkripuletzDepartment of Neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hanover, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8550-335X
Refik PulDepartment of Neurology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany.
Sven G MeuthDepartment of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Steffen PfeufferDepartment of Neurology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany steffenpfeuffer@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5171-4845

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe impact of body weight on disability progression rates among patients receiving ofatumumab was not evaluated yet.

methodsAmong patients from a multicentre prospective cohort, baseline demographics were compared among body mass index (BMI) quartiles as well as proportions of clinical relapses, MRI lesions and disability worsening during follow-up.

results536 patients from four centres were included. Baseline demographics were evenly distributed among patients. Proportions of relapses and new/enlarging MRI lesions were comparable among BMI strata.Confirmed disability worsening was significantly more abundant among patients from the 4th BMI quartile (BMI ≥29.2 kg/m

conclusionsInflammatory disease outcomes did not differ but disability progression was more frequent in the highest BMI quartile (BMI >29.2 kg/m

Indexed as

Antibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedBody Mass IndexMultiple SclerosisMultiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-RemittingAdultDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRecurrenceTreatment OutcomeAntibodies, Monoclonal, HumanizedofatumumabMULTIPLE SCLEROSISNEUROIMMUNOLOGY

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PMID40050009
PMCPMC12322383

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