Background: This study aimed to correlate body mass index or biomarkers with the frequency of common adverse events (AEs) with subcutaneous IFN β-1a during treatment titration in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis previously naïve to IFN β.Methods: Eighty-four patients (66.3% females) were followed up during 8 weeks, 25.3% were overweight and 14.5% were obese.Results: Biomarkers steadily increased during all study period by 45.3% for β2-microglobulin, 262.8% for olygoadenylate synthetase-1, and 92.8% for neopterin. Overall AE reporting did not vary with the dose or treatment duration.Conclusions: BMI was not predictive of increased risk for AEs. Biomarkers did not discriminate on the frequency of any AE either. © 2013 Muñoz et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Muñoz, D., Escartín, A., Dapena, D., Coret, F., Fernández-Uría, D., Pérez, D., … Sánchez-Matienzo, D. (2013). Adverse events during the titration phase of interferon-beta in remitting-relapsing multiple sclerosis are not predicted by body mass index nor by pharmacodynamic biomarkers. BMC Neurology, 13. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-13-82
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