Aging and efficacy of disease-modifying therapies in multiple sclerosis: a meta-analysis of clinical trials.
Yinan ZhangNatalia Gonzalez CalditoAfsaneh ShiraniAmber SalterGary CutterWilliam CulpepperMitchell WallinPeter KosaBibiana BielekovaFred LublinOlaf StüvePublished in: Therapeutic advances in neurological disorders (2020)
DMTs for RRMS show efficacy in treating disease activity independent of age as demonstrated by group-level data from DMT clinical trials. Nevertheless, clinical trials select for patients with baseline disease activity regardless of age, thereby not representing real-world patients with RRMS, where disease activity declines with age.