Incidence rate and sex ratio in multiple sclerosis in Lithuania

Prevalence and Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in Guilan Province

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and incidence of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Guilan Province) and to compare the standardized prevalence by the factor of age in this province. Methods: The study was a cross-sectional design that was conducted in 2018 at the Guilan MS Society (GMSS) on people with multiple sclerosis and examined the 654 people with multiple ...

On the sex ratio of multiple sclerosis.

An interesting feature that multiple sclerosis (MS) shares with many other immune-mediated diseases is that susceptibility is higher in females than males. 1,2 However, the female-to-male ratio (sex ratio) of MS appears to vary significantly in time and space. A recent meta-analysis of epidemiological studies has shown that the worldwide sex ratio of MS has been substantially increasing over th...

Sex ratio of multiple sclerosis in Canada: a longitudinal study.

BACKGROUND Incidence of multiple sclerosis is thought to be increasing, but this notion has been difficult to substantiate. In a longitudinal population-based dataset of patients with multiple sclerosis obtained over more than three decades, we did not show a difference in time to diagnosis by sex. We reasoned that if a sex-specific change in incidence was occurring, the female to male sex rati...

P-137: Sex Hormones Abnormalities and Female Sexual Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common cause of progressive neurological disability in young adults who may be sexually active. MS patients experience high levels of sexual dysfunction with hypoactive sexual behavior and abnormalities in hypothalamus- pituitary-gonad (HPG) axis. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the correlation between serum levels of sex hormones durin...

Month of Birth and the Incidence of Multiple Sclerosis in Southern Iran