Treatment choices and neuropsychological symptoms of a large cohort of early MS.

Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm

Department of Neurology (O.v.B., B.A., R.G., A.S.), St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum; Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics (T.D., N.H., A.Z.), University of Lübeck, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck; Central Information Office (CIO) (G.A.), Philipps-University Marburg, Germany; School of Mathematics (A.Z.), Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa; Department of Neurology (M.-M.H., L.A., B.H.), Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) (L.A., B.H.); Department of Neurology (F.L., S.G., F.Z.), University Medicine Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Department of Neurology (L.K., S.G.M., H.W.), University Hospital Münster; Department of Neurology (B.T.), Philipps-University Marburg; Department of Neurology (M.Stoppe, F.T.B.), University of Leipzig; Department of Neurology (H.T.), University of Ulm; Clinic of Neurology Dietenbronn (H.T.), Schwendi; Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology (T.K.), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; Department of Neurology (M.Stangel), Hannover Medical School; Institut für Neuroimmunologie und Multiple Sklerose (C.H.), Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf; Department of Neurology (B.W.), University of Heidelberg; NeuroCure Clinical Research Center and Experimental and Clinical Research Center (F.P.), Charité-University Medicine Berlin and Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine; Department of Neurology (A.B.), Klinikum Augsburg; Department of Neurology (C.W.), Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf; Department of Neurology (C.W.), University Hospital Köln; Neurology (F.W.), Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Munich; Neurological Clinic (F.W.), MATERNUS Kliniken AG, Bad Oeynhausen; Department of Neurology (R.A.L.), University Hospital Erlangen; Department of Neurology & Stroke (U.Z.), Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen; Department of Neurology (U.K.Z.), University of Rostock, Germany; and Department of Neurology (A.S.), Inselspital Bern, University Hospital and University of Bern, Switzerland.

Published: May 2018

Objective: To assess clinical characteristics, distribution of disease-modifying treatments (DMTs), and neuropsychological symptoms in a large cohort of patients with early-stage MS.

Methods: The German National MS Cohort is a multicenter prospective longitudinal cohort study that has recruited DMT-naive patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS) since 2010. We evaluated their baseline characteristics and the prevalence of neuropsychological symptoms.

Results: Of 1,124 patients, with a 2.2:1 female-to-male ratio and median age at onset of 31.71 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 26.06-40.33), 44.6% and 55.3% had CIS and RRMS, respectively. The median Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score at baseline was 1.5 (IQR: 1.0-2.0). A proportion of 67.8% of patients started DMT after a median time of 167.0 days (IQR 90.0-377.5) since the first manifestation. A total of 64.7% and 70.4% of the 762 patients receiving early DMT were classified as CIS and RRMS, respectively. Fatigue, depressive symptoms, and cognitive dysfunction were detected in 36.5%, 33.5%, and 14.7% of patients, respectively.

Conclusion: Baseline characteristics of this large cohort of patients with early, untreated MS corroborated with other cohorts. Most patients received early DMT within the first year after disease onset, irrespective of a CIS or RRMS diagnosis. Despite the low EDSS score, neuropsychological symptoms affected a relevant proportion of patients.

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