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  • Epidemiology
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Early detection of multiple sclerosis (MS) can significantly improve patient outcomes.
  • Pre-diagnostic clinical activity may indicate 'diagnostic windows' for earlier MS identification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if specific prescriptions are more prevalent in patients later diagnosed with MS.
  • To analyze prescription patterns in the UK up to 10 years prior to an MS diagnosis.

Main Methods:

  • A UK-based case-control study utilized primary care data from 2001-2022.
  • Multivariable conditional logistic regression analyzed associations between MS and prescriptions for various symptoms (anxiety/depression, migraine, LUTS, UTI, sleep, GI, ED).
  • Poisson regression identified prescription rate inflection points to determine the start of diagnostic windows.

Main Results:

  • The study included 9,662 MS cases and 56,455 controls.
  • Seven prescription types showed positive associations with MS diagnosis, with highest odds ratios (3-7x) in the two years preceding diagnosis.
  • Inflection points for prescription changes were identified years before diagnosis for GI, LUTS, UTI, migraine, ED, and anxiety/depression.

Conclusions:

  • Prescriptions for potential MS symptoms were more frequent in cases than controls up to 10 years prediagnosis.
  • Shifts in prescription rates years before diagnosis suggest opportunities for earlier MS detection.
  • Broad confidence intervals indicate uncertainty in precisely defining the duration of these diagnostic windows.