An article using Swedish register data to study epidemiology, patient characteristics, and treatment patterns of patients with narcolepsy is hot off the press.
The study found narcolepsy prevalence to be increasing during the study period, with both prevalence and incidence being higher in females than in males.
At the time of the first narcolepsy diagnosis, not all patients used narcolepsy-related medications, potentially indicating a need for faster initiation of appropriate treatment following the index.
Many incident patients were switched from the treatment they first initiated after diagnosis, suggesting that the currently available treatment options for narcolepsy are not sufficiently effective and/or have undesirable side effects.
Get in touch with Quantify Research’s Johan Mesterton if you are curious about the work behind this study or about the possibilities of using Nordic data to generate real-world evidence.
The full article can be found here: