{"id":233671,"date":"2026-03-19T19:11:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/impact-of-age-at-onset-on-relapse-and-disability-in-aqp4-igg-neuromyelitis-optica-spectrum-disorder"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:11:48","slug":"impact-of-age-at-onset-on-relapse-and-disability-in-aqp4-igg-neuromyelitis-optica-spectrum-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/impact-of-age-at-onset-on-relapse-and-disability-in-aqp4-igg-neuromyelitis-optica-spectrum-disorder","title":{"rendered":"Impact of Age at Onset on Relapse and Disability in AQP4-IgG Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/impact-of-age-at-onset-on-relapse-and-disability-in-aqp4-igg-neuromyelitis-optica-spectrum-disorder2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this multicenter cohort of over 500 patients with AQP4-IgG NMOSD, age at disease onset did not influence annualized relapse rate or time to first relapse. However, older age at onset correlated with greater long-term disability.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Background and Objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this multicenter cohort of over 500 patients with AQP4-IgG NMOSD, age at disease onset did not influence annualized relapse rate or time to first relapse. However, older age at onset correlated with greater long-term disability. Background and Objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}