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Researchers and scientists still have a lot to learn about multiple sclerosis (MS). One thing for certain is that the geographic distribution of this disease around the world is quite distinct. A north-south gradient in suseptibility to MS exists independent of genetic/racial factors.
If you take a look at the map, you’ll notice that a significantly higher incidence of MS is found in the northernmost latitudes of the northern and the southern hemispheres compared to southernmost latitudes.
But the fact is, despite this geographical trend, the epidemiology of MS cannot be explained by any individual environmental or genetic factor.
Population studies have also been performed that demonstrate difference in susceptibility to MS. Some studies have shown that Lapps in Scandinavia seem to be resistant to the disease, despite expectations based on their geographic location. And Native Americans and Hutterites very infrequently suffer from MS, as opposed to other residents of North America (http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ms/epidemiology.html).
MS is also uncommon in Japan, China and South America. It is practically unknown among the indigenous people of equatorial Africa and among native Inuit in Alaska. When the racial differences are correlated, White populations are at greater risk than Asian or African populations (http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ms/epidemiology.html).
hola, mi nombre es Paula, soy de Bahia Blanca pcia Buenos Aires,Argentina. Trabajo con una sra de 50 años con EM y me gustaria saber en que lugar se realizan estos trasplantes.
This laditudinal thing has me thinking, ms is viral in orgin so perhaps it is a mold or a pollen or a lichen that is only at these laditude and or elevation (regardless of laditude! But he was diagnosed while living at 8000 ft elevation. My father is 65 with PP/MS for 10 years. He lived in iowa during the (required years)