Male Sex Is Independently Associated with Faster Disability Accumulation in Relapse-Onset MS but Not in Primary Progressive MS.

Multiple Sclerosis is more common in women than men and females have more relapses than men. In a large international cohort we have evaluated the effect of gender on disability accumulation and disease progression to determine if male MS patients have a worse clinical outcome than females.Using the...

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Main Authors: Karen Ann Ribbons, Patrick McElduff, Cavit Boz, Maria Trojano, Guillermo Izquierdo, Pierre Duquette, Marc Girard, Francois Grand'Maison, Raymond Hupperts, Pierre Grammond, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Thor Petersen, Roberto Bergamaschi, Giorgio Giuliani, Michael Barnett, Vincent van Pesch, Maria-Pia Amato, Gerardo Iuliano, Marcela Fiol, Mark Slee, Freek Verheul, Edgardo Cristiano, Ricardo Fernandez-Bolanos, Maria-Laura Saladino, Maria Edite Rio, Jose Cabrera-Gomez, Helmut Butzkueven, Erik van Munster, Leontien Den Braber-Moerland, Daniele La Spitaleri, Alessandra Lugaresi, Vahid Shaygannejad, Orla Gray, Norma Deri, Raed Alroughani, Jeannette Lechner-Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4457630?pdf=render