Tag: MS facts

MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Facts

Having access to reliable MS facts is critical to finding useful help and resources for MS patients. How can you tell when you are being given multiple sclerosis facts and when somebody is just capitalizing on your ignorance and fears to make a quick buck? Well, first of all you should look at the quality of information that is being offered by the source. Is it simply an opinion or is there evidence to support it? And what sort of evidence are you being presented with? If it is scientific evidence, and if it comes from studies that have been published in peer-review journals, then you are on the right track. Other valuable sources of information that aren’t necessarily scientific are the blog entries or discussion forum contributions of other MS patients.

Not only do MS patients and those suffering from other diseases have firsthand experience of their respective diseases, …


Interesting MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Facts

MS facts are not only interesting to those with MS, but a long list of Multiple Sclerosis facts can also be useful to individuals who have no clue what this disease is like. People who have had no experience with MS might not know that it was first diagnosed in the year of 1849 or that 2.5 million people around the world are affected by MS. Additional facts listed on many MS information sheets are: the UK has 70,000 people who have been diagnosed with MS, Scotland has the highest prevalence of MS out of any other country, the survival rate for an MS patient in 1936 was only 8 percent, the cause of MS is still unknown, and a person is twice as likely to be diagnosed with MS if that individual’s father also has the disease.

 

Trustworthy Places to Obtain Multiple Sclerosis Facts and Figures

 

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