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Juvenile multiple sclerosis similar to type I diabetes mellitus has a seasonality of month of birth which differs from that in the general population.
Endocrinology and Diabetes Research Unit, Schneider Children's Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism: JPEM (impact factor:
0.88).
05/2008;
21(5):473-7.
pp.473-7
Source: PubMed
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Article: Multiple sclerosis: geoepidemiology, genetics and the environment.
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ABSTRACT: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system characterized by relapses and remissions. The risk of acquiring this complex disease is associated with exposure to environmental factors in genetically susceptible individuals. The epidemiology of MS has been extensively studied. We review the geographic epidemiology of the disease, the influence of immigration, age at immigration, clustering and epidemics. Various presumptive risk factors are discussed such as ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D, Epstein-Barr virus and infectious mononucleosis, other infectious agents and non-infectious factors. Two different hypotheses, the hygiene hypothesis and the prevalence hypothesis, were proposed to explain these environmental risk factors for MS. The epidemiological data, combined with pathological and immunological data, may contribute to the debate whether MS is an autoimmune disease, a latent or persistent viral disease, or a neurodegenerative disease.Autoimmunity reviews 11/2009; 9(5):A387-94. · 6.37 Impact Factor
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