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Ruben van Eijk

@rpavaneijk.bsky.social
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ALS/MND Researcher @ UMCU | Clinical Trial Methodology, Outcomes & Statistics | Part-time cyclist 🚴‍♂️

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Ametris @actigraph.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@rpavaneijk.bsky.social & colleagues conducted a multi-year prospective cohort study of 97 patients with #ALS. Their findings: an #accelerometer -based measure is predictive of disease progression and related to patient-reported functioning: www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
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Remote monitoring of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using wearable sensors detects differences in disease progression and survival: a prospective cohort study
The results serve as motivation to incorporate accelerometer-derived outcomes in clinical trials, which is essential for further validation of these markers to meaningful endpoints.
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Shyuan Ngo @ngoshyuan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Our study on the safety and tolerability of Trimetazidine in #ALS @braincomms.bsky.social Trimetazidine reduced oxidative stress markers and energy expenditure, warranting a follow up study @rpavaneijk.bsky.social @fredsteyn.bsky.social @ammaralchalabi.bsky.social academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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An open-label phase 2a study to assess the safety and tolerability of trimetazidine in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
van Eijk et al. report that oral trimetazidine is safe and well-tolerated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients, significantly reducing oxidative
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Ruben van Eijk @rpavaneijk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Dropout & attrition in #ALS #MND trials is a major challenge. We have created an #open-access calculator to estimate attrition rates for a given study duration, which can used to guide trial design and sample size calculations (tricals.shinyapps.io/Attrition/); the accompanying paper: rdcu.be/d3n36
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Ruben van Eijk @rpavaneijk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New paper to reflect on the main challenges in phase 2 #ALS #MND trials. Key issues relate too short study durations, reliance on the wrong outcome measures, absence of biomarkers, statistical issues, over-interpretation of 'clinical trends' and miscommunication. academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Rethinking phase 2 trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
There is a long history of ALS therapies being promoted on the basis of Phase 2 data, which then fail to translate into meaningful benefits in Phase 3 tria
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