Remote monitoring of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using wearable sensors detects differences in disease progression and survival: a prospective cohort studyResearch in context

Autor: Jordi W.J. van Unnik, Myrte Meyjes, Mark R. Janse van Mantgem, Leonard H. van den Berg, Ruben P.A. van Eijk
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EBioMedicine, Vol 103, Iss , Pp 105104- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2352-3964
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105104
Popis: Summary: Background: There is an urgent need for objective and sensitive measures to quantify clinical disease progression and gauge the response to treatment in clinical trials for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Here, we evaluate the ability of an accelerometer-derived outcome to detect differential clinical disease progression and assess its longitudinal associations with overall survival in patients with ALS. Methods: Patients with ALS wore an accelerometer on the hip for 3–7 days, every 2–3 months during a multi-year observation period. An accelerometer-derived outcome, the Vertical Movement Index (VMI), was calculated, together with predicted disease progression rates, and jointly analysed with overall survival. The clinical utility of VMI was evaluated using comparisons to patient-reported functionality, while the impact of various monitoring schemes on empirical power was explored through simulations. Findings: In total, 97 patients (70.1% male) wore the accelerometer for 1995 days, for a total of 27,701 h. The VMI was highly discriminatory for predicted disease progression rates, revealing faster rates of decline in patients with a worse predicted prognosis compared to those with a better predicted prognosis (p
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