Annual transition probabilities of overweight and obesity in older adults: Evidence from World Health Organization Study on global AGEing and adult health

ST Lartey, L Si, P Otahal, B de Graaff… - Social science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Overweight/obesity is becoming increasingly prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa including
Ghana. However, transition probabilities, an essential component to develop cost-effective …

Modelling the impact of multiple sclerosis on life expectancy, quality-adjusted life years and total lifetime costs: evidence from Australia

AJ Palmer, I van der Mei, BV Taylor… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To quantify life expectancy (LE), quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and total
lifetime societal costs for a hypothetical cohort of Australians with multiple sclerosis (MS) …

Long-term trajectories of employment status, workhours and disability support pension status, after a first episode of CNS demyelination

A Zarghami, I van der Mei, MA Hussain… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: People with multiple sclerosis face significant employment-related challenges,
with little known of the drivers of these outcomes. Objective: We examined prospective …

Measuring hypertension progression with transition probabilities: estimates from the WHO SAGE longitudinal study

GO Boateng, ST Lartey, P Baiden, L Si… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
This paper assessed the transition probabilities between the stages of hypertension severity
and the length of time an individual might spend at a particular disease state using the new …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of Transition Probabilities from a Large Cohort (> 6000) of Australians Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for Changing Disability Severity …

JA Campbell, GJ Henson, VF Ngwa, H Ahmad… - …, 2024 - Springer
Background Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune/neurodegenerative disease
associated with progressing disability affecting mostly women. We aim to estimate transition …

Physical disability and personality traits in multiple sclerosis

M Estrada-López, MM Reguera-García… - Multiple sclerosis and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disease with several clinical phenotypes running from forms that
rapidly render sufferers disabled to others with only a low level of handicap. In the light of the …

Exploring the cost-effectiveness of EBV vaccination to prevent multiple sclerosis in an Australian setting

AJ Palmer, T Zhao, BV Taylor, I van der Mei… - Journal of Neurology …, 2024 - jnnp.bmj.com
Background Increasing evidence suggests the potential of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)
vaccination in preventing multiple sclerosis (MS). We aimed to explore the cost-effectiveness …

[HTML][HTML] Multiple sclerosis progressive courses: a clinical cohort long-term disability progression study

PA Cortesi, C Fornari, R Capra, P Cozzolino, F Patti… - Value in Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Improving the understanding of multiple sclerosis (MS) mechanism and disability
progression over time is essential to assess the value of healthcare interventions. Poor or no …

The impact of cognitive impairment on disease burden in Chinese patients with multiple sclerosis: A model simulation study

Q Jiang, W Wang, W Chen, Y Xu - Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Cognitive impairment (CI) is prevalent in Chinese patients with relapsing-
remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Methods A decision analytic model was constructed to …

Cord–Age–Gender Connections Shape the Pathophysiology of Multiple Sclerosis Progressive Forms

S Nataf - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
There is increasing evidence that sex hormones, aging, and the occurrence of spinal cord
(SC) tissue alterations exert combined effects on the development and outcome of multiple …