Geographical variations in sex ratio trends over time in multiple sclerosis.

BACKGROUND: A female/male (F/M) ratio increase over time in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients was demonstrated in many countries around the world. So far, a direct comparison of sex ratio time-trends among MS populations from different geographical areas was not carried out. OBJECTIVE: In this paper...

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Main Authors: Maria Trojano, Guglielmo Lucchese, Giusi Graziano, Bruce V Taylor, Steve Simpson, Vito Lepore, Francois Grand'maison, Pierre Duquette, Guillermo Izquierdo, Pierre Grammond, Maria Pia Amato, Roberto Bergamaschi, Giorgio Giuliani, Cavit Boz, Raymond Hupperts, Vincent Van Pesch, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Edgardo Cristiano, Marcela Fiol, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Maria Laura Saladino, Freek Verheul, Mark Slee, Damiano Paolicelli, Carla Tortorella, Mariangela D'Onghia, Pietro Iaffaldano, Vita Direnzo, Helmut Butzkueven, MSBase Study Group and the New Zealand MS Prevalence Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3485003?pdf=render