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Study on Dalfampridine in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Mobility Disability: A meta-analysis.

Authors :
Jianzhen Shi
Xiaohui Wu
Yanmei Chen
Source :
PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 9, p e0222288 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019.

Abstract

ObjectiveSystematic Review was used to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Dalfampridine (DAP) in the treatment of Mobility Disability (MS) in patients with Multiple Sclerosis.MethodsClinical randomized controlled studies about DAP and placebo in the treatment of Mobility Disability in patients with Multiple Sclerosis until March 2019 were explored by searching Embase, PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Knowledge, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Literature screening, data extraction, quality assessment, and statistical analysis were performed by using Stata 14.0.Results10 papers were included in the meta-analysis, and the number of patients was 2100. In conclusion, the application of DAP in clinical can significantly improve the Mobility Disability of patients [OR = 2.73, 95%CI (1.66, 4.50), P10 mg) is a litter higher than the placebo control group.ConclusionDAP can effectively improve Mobility Disability in patients with Multiple Sclerosis, which is safe and reliable in specific DAP usage doses.

Subjects

Subjects :
Medicine
Science

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19326203
Volume :
14
Issue :
9
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
PLoS ONE
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.302890adaca24e8a8fe627d544e78de2
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222288