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| Ra MarrieSummaryAffiliation: University of Manitoba Country: Canada Publications
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Cumulative impact of comorbidity on quality of life in MSR A Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Acta Neurol Scand 125:180-6. 2012..We investigated the association of comorbidity and health-related HRQOL among participants in the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS)...- Comorbidity, socioeconomic status and multiple sclerosisRa Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mult Scler 14:1091-8. 2008..Using the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry, we aimed to describe comorbidities and their demographic predictors in MS... - Demographic, genetic, and environmental factors that modify disease courseRuth Ann Marrie
University of Manitoba, Health Sciences Center, GF 533, 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3A 1R9, Canada
Neurol Clin 29:323-41. 2011..Elucidation of these factors will require careful study of well-characterized populations in which the roles of multiple factors are considered simultaneously... - Association between comorbidity and clinical characteristics of MSR A Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Acta Neurol Scand 124:135-41. 2011.... - Emerging effects of comorbidities on multiple sclerosisRuth Ann Marrie
Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Lancet Neurol 9:820-8. 2010..Further research is needed to answer many other questions about comorbidities and their associations with MS, including the best way to measure and analyse comorbidities to understand these associations... - Vascular comorbidity is associated with more rapid disability progression in multiple sclerosisR A Marrie
Health Sciences Center, Winnipeg, Canada
Neurology 74:1041-7. 2010..Vascular comorbidities may contribute to the poorly understood heterogeneity in MS disease severity. Treatment of vascular comorbidities may represent an avenue for treating MS... - The rising prevalence and changing age distribution of multiple sclerosis in ManitobaR A Marrie
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Neurology 74:465-71. 2010..We aimed to validate a case definition for MS using administrative health insurance data, and to describe the incidence and prevalence of MS in Manitoba, Canada... - A cross-sectional study of bone health in multiple sclerosisRuth Ann Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Neurology 73:1394-8. 2009..Osteoporosis is an important risk factor for fragility fractures. Although osteoporosis is considered common in multiple sclerosis (MS), few previous studies focused on fractures in MS... - The burden of mental comorbidity in multiple sclerosis: frequent, underdiagnosed, and undertreatedR A Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Mult Scler 15:385-92. 2009..Mental comorbidity is common in multiple sclerosis (MS), but some studies suggest that mental comorbidity may be underrecognized and undertreated... - Smoking status over two years in patients with multiple sclerosisRuth Ann Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Man, Canada
Neuroepidemiology 32:72-9. 2009..The reliability of self-reported smoking status is unknown in MS. We assessed the reliability of self-reported smoking status among participants in the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry... - Comorbidity delays diagnosis and increases disability at diagnosis in MSR A Marrie
Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Neurology 72:117-24. 2009..In multiple sclerosis (MS), it is unknown whether preexisting comorbidity affects the delay between initial symptom onset and diagnosis ("diagnostic delay") or the severity of disability at MS diagnosis... - High frequency of adverse health behaviors in multiple sclerosisRa Marrie
Department of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Mult Scler 15:105-13. 2009..We assessed health behaviors among participants in the North American Research Committee on Multiple Sclerosis (NARCOMS) Registry and the demographic characteristics associated with particular health behaviors... - Substantial adverse association of visual and vascular comorbidities on visual disability in multiple sclerosisRuth Ann Marrie
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Mult Scler 17:1464-71. 2011..Visual comorbidities are common in multiple sclerosis (MS) but the impact of visual comorbidities on visual disability is unknown...