Functional changes in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A 12-month longitudinal cohort study

Autor: Luisa Politano, Silvia Frosini, MP Sormani, Tiziana Mongini, Enrico Bertini, Adele D'Amico, Angela Berardinelli, Sara Napolitano, Roberta Battini, Eugenio Mercuri, Giacomo P. Comi, Maria Chiara Motta, Maria Benedetta Donati, Stefano C. Previtali, Marika Pane, Serena Gasperini, Flaviana Bianco, Fabio Cavallaro, Luca Doglio, Gianluca Vita, Sonia Messina, Elena Pegoraro, Danilo Martinelli, Angela Sacco, Gessica Vasco, M Scutifero, Luca Bello, Yvan Torrente, Francesca Rossi, E. Zucchini, Cristina Bruno, Elena S. Mazzone, Antonella Pini, R. De Sanctis, S Bonfiglio
Přispěvatelé: Mazzone, E, Vasco, G, Sormani, Mp, Torrente, Y, Berardinelli, A, Messina, S, D’Amico, A, Doglio, L, Politano, L, Cavallaro, F, Frosini, S, Bello, L, Bonfiglio, S, Zucchini, E, De Sanctis, R, Scutifero, M, Bianco, F, Rossi, F, Motta, Mc, Sacco, A, Donati, Ma, Mongini, T, Pini, A, Battini, R, Pegoraro, E, Pane, M, Gasperini, S, Previtali, S, Napolitano, S, Martinelli, D, Bruno, C, Vita, G, Comi, Giancarlo, Bertini, E, Mercuri, E.
Rok vydání: 2011
Předmět:
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Adolescent
Cross-sectional study
Prednisolone
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Statistics as Topic
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Walking
Severity of Illness Index
Cohort Studies
Settore MED/39 - NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
Pregnenediones
Severity of illness
medicine
Humans
Muscular Dystrophy
Muscular dystrophy
Child
Preschool
business.industry
Reproducibility of Results
drug therapy/physiopathology
Duchenne
medicine.disease
Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne

Clinical trial
Cross-Sectional Studies
therapeutic use
Child
Preschool

physiology
Ambulatory
Cohort
Disease Progression
Physical therapy
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
Adolescent
Anti-Inflammatory Agents

therapeutic use
Child
Child

Preschool
Cohort Studies
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease Progression
Female
Humans
Male
Muscular Dystrophy

drug therapy/physiopathology
Prednisolone

therapeutic use
Pregnenediones

therapeutic use
Reproducibility of Results
Severity of Illness Index
Statistics as Topic
Walking

Cohort study
Zdroj: ResearcherID
ISSN: 1526-632X
0028-3878
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e318225ab2e
Popis: Objective: The aim of the study was to assess different outcome measures in a cohort of ambulant boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) over 12 months in order to establish the spectrum of possible changes in relation to age and steroid treatment. Methods: The study is a longitudinal multicentric cohort study. A total of 106 ambulant patients with DMD were assessed using the 6-minute walk test (6MWT) and North Star Ambulatory Assessment (NSAA) at baseline and 12 months. Clinical data including age and steroid treatment were collected. Results: During the 12 months of the study, we observed a mean decline of 25.8 meters in the 6MWT with a SD of 74.3 meters. On NSAA, the mean decline was 2.2 points with a SD of 3.7. Not all the boys with DMD in our cohort showed a decline over the 12 months, with young boys showing some improvement in their 6MWT and NSAA scores up to the age of 7. NSAA and the 6MWT had the highest correlation ( r = 0.52, p Conclusions: This study provides longitudinal data of NSAA and 6MWT over a 12-month period. These data can be useful when designing a clinical trial.
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