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Prevalence of patient-reported dysphagia in multiple sclerosis patients: an Italian multicenter study (using the DYMUS questionnaire)
- Source :
- Journal of the neurological sciences. 331(1-2)
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) with a chronic course. Dysphagia represents one of the current challenges in clinical practice for the management of MS patients. Dysphagia starts to appear in mildly impaired MS subjects (EDSS 2-3) and becomes increasingly common in the most severely disabled subjects (EDSS 8-9). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the frequency and characteristics of patient-reported dysphagia in MS patients with a multicenter study using the recently developed DYMUS (DYsphagia in MUltiple Sclerosis) questionnaire. DESIGN: Data were collected in a multi-centre, cross-sectional study using a face-to-face structured questionnaire for clinical characteristics and the DYMUS questionnaire. RESULTS: 1875 patients were interviewed. The current study has shown a correlation between patient-reported dysphagia and EDSS and disease course but not with age, gender and disease duration. Questionnaires were divided into "patient-reported dysphagia-yes" (587, 31.3%) and "patient-reported dysphagia-no" (1288, 68.7%). Compared with the patient-reported dysphagia-no group, patients in patient-reported dysphagia-yes group had higher EDSS score (mean EDSS 4.6 vs. 2.8; p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Multiple Sclerosis
Design data
Adolescent
Disease duration
Statistics as Topic
QUESTIONNAIRE
Disease
DYSPHAGIA
Disease course
Disability Evaluation
Young Adult
Surveys and Questionnaires
otorhinolaryngologic diseases
medicine
Prevalence
Humans
Child
business.industry
Multiple sclerosis
Infant
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Dysphagia
Clinical Practice
Cross-Sectional Studies
Neurology
Multicenter study
Italy
Child, Preschool
Physical therapy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
Self Report
medicine.symptom
business
Deglutition Disorders
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18785883
- Volume :
- 331
- Issue :
- 1-2
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the neurological sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4ce50c736403080dd6519cf82b38b48c