Declining incidence of multiple sclerosis in the Orkney Islands
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurology
- Vol. 35 (4), 545
- https://doi.org/10.1212/wnl.35.4.545
Abstract
The incidence of MS (multiple sclerosis) in the Orkney Islands was updated from 1941 to Sept.21, 1983. Since 1965, MS incidence rates have fallen significantly when compared with those for 1941 to 1964. Alterations in age-specific prevalence, mean duration of illness and mean age of the MS population are consistent with the decline in incidence of MS in recent years. Although the reason for the decreasing incidence is uncertain, it is consistent with the hypothesis that MS may be caused by canine distemper virus.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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