Blood Markers Help Predict MS Disease Progression

[BettysMom]

Blood biomarkers at disease onset may help predict relapse-associated worsening and progression independent of relapse activity (PIRA) in multiple sclerosis (MS), an observational study suggested. Patients with high NfL at disease onset may benefit from high-efficacy treatments.

medpagetoday.com/meetingcov...

[Cwright170994]

This would have been brilliant when I first got diagnosed 9 years ago! Spent 6 years on copaxone, to then be put on ocrevus, because my MS is apparently aggressive. Since being on ocrevus, there's been no sign of new lesions. I'm still just a RRMSer 🙏

[sashaming1]

My Neurologist does this for me.

[CatsandCars]

The science could be really useful. I just hope insurers would not use those results to try to get out of paying for high-effucacy treatments for those whose biomarkers markers did not predict RAW and PIRA.