Multivariable prognostic prediction of efficacy and safety outcomes and response to fingolimod in people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.

Background: The individual treatment response in people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) remain unpredictable. In order to support medical decisions, we aimed to predict response to fingolimod compared to placebo, by developing and validating prognostic multivariable models.

Methods: We included two-year follow-up from intention-to-treat populations of two multi-country placebo-controlled randomized controlled trials (RCT) of daily fingolimod 0.

Deep Learning-Based Detection of Carotid Plaques Informs Cardiovascular Risk Prediction and Reveals Genetic Drivers of Atherosclerosis.

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of global mortality, is driven by lipid accumulation and plaque formation within arterial walls. Carotid plaques, detectable via ultrasound, are a well-established marker of subclinical atherosclerosis. In this study, we trained a deep learning model to detect plaques in 177,757 carotid ultrasound images from 19,499 UK Biobank (UKB) participants (aged 47-83 years) to assess the prevalence, risk factors, prognostic significance, and genetic architecture of carotid atherosclerosis in a large population-based cohort.

Conditional survival of younger patients with mantle cell lymphoma: Results from a randomized phase III trial of the European MCL Network.

During a fatal disease, patients often request updated information on their prognosis. After patients have already survived a certain time, conditional survival captures their future survival probability. We investigated conditional overall and failure-free survival in 473 younger mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) patients from a randomized phase III trial comparing immunochemotherapies R-CHOP and alternating R-CHOP/R-DHAP before autologous transplantation.

Prevention of allergies and infections by minimally processed milk in infants-The MARTHA feasibility and safety trial.

Background: Consumption of raw cow's milk has repeatedly been shown to protect from asthma, allergies, and respiratory infections. As raw milk bears potential health hazards, it cannot be recommended for prevention. Therefore, we performed an intervention study with microbially safe but otherwise minimally processed cow's milk.