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| Title |
Personalized medicine in multiple sclerosis: hope or reality?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Tobias Derfuss |
| Abstract |
Personalized treatment is highly desirable in multiple sclerosis because it is an immensely heterogeneous disease. This heterogeneity is seen in both the disease course and the treatment responses. Currently, a combination of clinical features and imaging parameters in magnetic resonance imaging is used to classify active and non-active patients and treatment responders and non-responders. Although this classification works on a group level, individual patients often behave differently from the group. Therefore additional biomarkers are needed to provide better indicators for prognosis and treatment response. Basic and clinical research have discovered different promising targets. It is now essential to verify the utility and accuracy of these markers in large, prospectively sampled patient cohorts. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 38% |
| Australia | 1 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 3 | 38% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 38% |
| Members of the public | 3 | 38% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 13% |
| Scientists | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 72 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 4% |
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Colombia | 1 | 1% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 63 | 88% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 22% |
| Researcher | 15 | 21% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 10% |
| Other | 12 | 17% |
| Unknown | 4 | 6% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 39% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 10 | 14% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 8 | 11% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 14% |
| Unknown | 7 | 10% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2023.
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#3,535,490
of 25,192,722 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,036
of 3,946 outputs
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#23,794
of 180,259 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#21
of 48 outputs
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