MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

EPIDEMIOLOGY

THIS DEALS WITH DISEASE PATTERNS CONCERNING
GEOGRAPHY, DEMOGRAPHICS, SOCIEOECONOMIC STATUS,
GENETICS AND INFECTIOUS FACTORS

03/19/2007

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIEOECONOMIC CRITERIA

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS GENETIC CRITERIA

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS INFECTION CRITERIA

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS VARIABLE CRITERIA

MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Return to M.S. INDEX

HEALTH OPINIONS Return to HEALTH OPINIONS INDEX

DIRECTORY Return to the NAVIGATION HUB for these sites.

There appear to be multiple causes in MS,
possibly including viruses, environmental, genetic, and immune system factors. Epidemiology is the study of disease patterns that takes into account variations in geography, demographics, socioeconomic status, genetics, and infectious causes. Epidemiologists contribute to knowledge about MS by studying the relationships between these factors, as well as patterns of migration, that may be related to areas of with high or low rates of MS.

The Ms capital of the world is eastern Scotland, the Orkneys and Shetlands, and Scandinavia. There are all kinds of hypotheses but multiple sclerosis delights in confounding hard and fast statements.