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Sex ratio of multiple sclerosis and clinical phenotype.
European journal of neurology - 1 Apr 2010
Ramagopalan S V, Byrnes J K, Orton S-M, Dyment D A, Guimond C, Yee I M, Ebers G C, Sadovnick A D
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In a longitudinal population-based dataset of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), we have previously observed a substantial increase in the female to male sex ratio in Canada over the last 50 years. Here, we aimed to determine whether this change in sex ratio is related to the clinical course of MS. METHODS: We calculated sex ratios by birth year in 11 868 patients with...
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