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The epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Scotland: inferences from hospital admissions.
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BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurological disorder with a highly characteristic disease distribution. Prevalence and incidence in general increase with increasing distance from the equator. Similarly the female to male sex ratio increases with increasing latitude. Multiple possible risk factors have been hypothesised for this epidemiological trend, including human leukocyte antigen allele frequencies, ultraviolet exposure and subsequent vitamin D levels, smoking and Epstein-Barr ...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0014606
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Journal:
- PloS one More from this journal
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- e14606
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-27
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
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English
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118036
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- Handel et al
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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- Copyright 2011 Handel et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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