Simpson, S. Jr. et al. Higher 25-hydroxyvitamin D is associated with lower relapse risk in multiple sclerosis.
It's the equivalent of taking an anti-depressant for the first six months, but with a 30percentt lower relapse rate over the next two years.
Findings: Methadone detoxification results in higher retention in treatment, lower relapse rate and fewer side effects when compared with adrenergic agonists.
The research showed that patients outside the United States and Europe had significantly lower relapse rates — as much as two-thirds lower in one follow-up study.
Indeed, it works better, if you take into account the lower relapse rate.The study looked at a relatively modern type of talk therapy, known as cognitive therapy, which tries to teach people how to change harmful thoughts and beliefs.
The one exception is a double-blind discontinuation study, comparing placebo to continued treatment with fluoxetine (Emslie et al, 2004), that found a lower relapse rate in the group that remained on fluoxetine (34 vs 60%, p<0.05) and a longer time to relapse (181 vs 71 days, p<0.05).
The significantly lower relapse rate of frovatriptan can be explained by its pharmacological properties [21].
Frovatriptan resulted in significantly lower relapse rates at 24 hours and 48 hours when taken in migraine attacks with aura.
HLA-identical allogeneic marrow recipients had a statistically lower relapse rate compared with recipients of autologous marrow, but survival, EFS, and nonrelapse mortality rates were not significantly different.
The use of HLA-matched sibling marrow results in a lower relapse rate and, thus, for some individuals, may be preferable to the use of autologous marrow.
When dropouts who did not relapse during patch use were classified as successful, however, the Nicotine Maintenance group had significantly lower relapse rates.
