Le Hua, MD: Disease Duration and Age in MS
The director of the Multiple Sclerosis Program at Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health detailed the current thinking about the challenges of addressing multiple sclerosis in older patients.
“A lot of the studies have shown that the older you get, the less relapses there are, the less MRI changes, the less activity. …[But,] we don’t have a really good idea as to if we should be treating older patients differently if what’s actually underlying the disease is different.”
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a difficult disease for physicians to treat, even with the relatively vast arsenal of therapeutics available as treatment options. Additionally, a wide variety of factors, including a patient’s age at the time and at diagnosis as well as the duration of the disease, influence the physician’s approach to managing its progression.
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To find out more about the questions facing MS specialists and the correlation between age, disease duration, and treatment in patients, NeurologyLive sat with Le Hua, MD, director, Multiple Sclerosis Program, Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. Hua detailed the current thinking about how to address this challenge.
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