New Findings from China Medical University Describe Advances in Multiple Sclerosis (Survival and Its Correlates in Multiple Sclerosis Patients under a Universal Health Insurance Program in Taiwan: An 18-Year Nationwide Cohort Study): Autoimmune Diseases and Conditions – Multiple Sclerosis

2023 JUN 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A new study on multiple sclerosis is now available. According to news reporting out of Taichung, Taiwan, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “Despite the global decline in the standardized mortality rate of multiple sclerosis (MS), recent research on MS patient survival, especially in Taiwan, remains limited.”

Funders for this research include China Medical University.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from China Medical University: “This study aimed to investigate survival, mortality causes, and associated factors among MS patients in Taiwan. The Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database was used as the primary data source, and a Cox proportional hazard model was employed to estimate and analyze factors related to survival. We analyzed data from 1444 MS patients diagnosed between 2000 and 2018. Age at diagnosis was positively correlated with the risk of death. Among the 190 patients who died, the leading causes of disease-related deaths were nervous system diseases (n = 83, 43.68%), followed by respiratory system diseases and certain infectious and parasitic diseases.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The 8-, 13-, and 18-year survival rates for MS patients were 0.97, 0.91, and 0.81, respectively. This study highlights that the MS patient’s socioeconomic status, environmental factors, comorbidity severity, and related medical variables were not significantly associated with survival.”

For more information on this research see: Survival and Its Correlates in Multiple Sclerosis Patients under a Universal Health Insurance Program in Taiwan: An 18-Year Nationwide Cohort Study. Healthcare, 2023,11(11). (Healthcare - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare). The publisher for Healthcare is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11111551.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Chun-Ming Liao, Graduate Institute of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung 406040, Taiwan. Additional authors for this research include Chia-Yu Chen, Pei-Tseng Kung, Wei-Yin Kuo, Hui-Chuan Chuang, Wen-Chen Tsai.

ORCID is an identifier for authors and includes bibliographic information. The following is ORCID information for the authors of this research: Chun-Ming Liao (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2232-2962), Wen-Chen Tsai (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-0789).

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