New and Noteworthy Information—September 2017

Hilkens NA, Algra A, Diener HC, et al. Predicting major bleeding in patients with noncardioembolic stroke on antiplatelets: S2TOP-BLEED. Neurology. 2017 Aug 2 [Epub ahead of print].

Questionnaires Predict Survival in MS

The way patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) answer questionnaires could help to predict their survival rate from the disease, according to a study published July 10 in PLoS Medicine. From July 15, 2004, onward, 2,126 people with MS completed MS Impact Scale-29 (MSIS-29) questionnaires. By 2014, 264 participants had died. Higher baseline MSIS-29 physical score and higher baseline MSIS-29 psychologic score were associated with reduced survival time. In participants with high baseline MSIS-29 scores, mortality risk was greater if the MSIS-29 score worsened over one year. MSIS-29 physical scores were associated with survival time, independent of age, sex, and patient-reported Expanded Disability Status Scale score in a Cox regression analysis.

Raffel J, Wallace A, Gveric D, et al. Patient-reported outcomes and survival in multiple sclerosis: a 10-year retrospective cohort study using the Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale-29. PLoS Med. 2017;14(7):e1002346.

—Kimberly Williams