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Outpatient claims and inpatient hospitalizations for infections especially urinary and kidney infections were higher among people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than controls, a large retrospective study of commercial insurance records showed.
MS patients were more than four times as likely to be hospitalized with urinary and kidney infections as others, reported Riley Bove, MD, of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences at the University of California San Francisco.
Few population-level risk estimates for specific categories of infections in MS patients exist in the U.S., she noted. These findings, from a modern U.S.-based cohort, support an elevated risk for a number of infection types in patients with MS, Bove said. Specifically, the elevated risk of urinary and kidney infections points to a need for better screening and management of bladder function, she told