Abstract:
:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the central nervous system characterized by relapses and remissions. The risk of acquiring this complex disease is associated with exposure to environmental factors in genetically susceptible individuals. The epidemiology of MS has been extensively studied. We review the geographic epidemiology of the disease, the influence of immigration, age at immigration, clustering and epidemics. Various presumptive risk factors are discussed such as ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D, Epstein-Barr virus and infectious mononucleosis, other infectious agents and non-infectious factors. Two different hypotheses, the hygiene hypothesis and the prevalence hypothesis, were proposed to explain these environmental risk factors for MS. The epidemiological data, combined with pathological and immunological data, may contribute to the debate whether MS is an autoimmune disease, a latent or persistent viral disease, or a neurodegenerative disease.
journal_name
Autoimmun Revjournal_title
Autoimmunity reviewsauthors
Milo R,Kahana Edoi
10.1016/j.autrev.2009.11.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2010-03-01 00:00:00pages
A387-94issue
5eissn
1568-9972issn
1873-0183pii
S1568-9972(09)00188-8journal_volume
9pub_type
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