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Trial reportSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Accelerated Brain Aging Identifies Functional Vulnerability Beyond Chronological Age in Multiple Sclerosis.

Patrick G Monaghan, Taylor N Takla, James H Cole, Nora E Fritz

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Trial report in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Patrick G MonaghanDepartment of Health Care Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-1151-7000
Taylor N TaklaTranslational Neuroscience Program, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6546-5752
James H ColeHawkes Institute, Department of Computer Science, University College London, London WC1V 6LJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1908-5588
Nora E FritzDepartment of Health Care Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4548-1077

Funding

Research Education ComponentP30AG072931 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Ana Marie Daugherty · 2021 to 2026
$26.5M
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development F31HD116491Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R21HD106133National Multiple Sclerosis Society MB-2107-38,295NIA NIH HHS P30 AG072931NIA NIH HHS P30AG072931
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronological age incompletely captures neurodegenerative burden and functional vulnerability in multiple sclerosis (MS). Brain-predicted age difference (Brain-PAD; predicted minus chronological age) provides an MRI-derived index of accelerated brain aging, but links to mobility and real-world behavior remain unclear. Forty-three adults with MS completed structural MRI, mobility testing, and six months of free-living physical activity monitoring. Brain age was estimated using PyBrainAge applied to FreeSurfer-derived cortical thickness and subcortical volumes. Hierarchical regressions tested whether Brain-PAD explained additional variance in mobility (Mini-BESTest total and subscores; forward/backward walking velocity) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) beyond age and disability (PDDS). Predicted brain age exceeded chronological age (Brain-PAD = 8.4 ± 11.1 years;

Indexed as

AgingBrainMagnetic Resonance ImagingMultiple SclerosisPhysical Functional PerformanceAdultAgedBrain Cortical ThicknessDisability EvaluationExerciseFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRegression Analysisagingbalancebiomarkerbrain agemobilitymultiple sclerosisphysical activity

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PMID42076551
PMCPMC13119819

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