“…18,19 In one of these studies, however, the patient population consisted entirely of those with secondary progressive MS, 18 whereas the other had a lower EDSS inclusion threshold (1–7), allowed inclusion of patients who had been treated with DMTs as recently as 3 months prior to study entry, and was intended as a validation study of a novel disability score (CombiWISE); that scoring measure, in addition to EDSS, T25FW, and 9HPT, also includes the Scripps Neurological Rating Scale. 19 And, as with the previously noted studies, neither unconfirmed disease nor a cross-sectional analysis was included in the design of these studies.…”