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Risk Factors, Course, and Prognosis of Multiple Selerosis

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It has been said that to know multiple sclerosis (MS) is to know Neurology — and vice versa. In the occident this is among young adults the most common disease with primary pathologic changes in the central nervous system. It has been characterized as a disease of unknown cause, inadequate treatment, and unpredictable course. It has also been the single neurologic disorder about which the most has been written, and in this regard epidemiology has contributed its share. There is then some information available for this disease as to risk factors, the course of the illness, and factors predictive of this course.

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  1. Neurology Service and Neuroepidemiology Research Program, Veterans Administration Medical Center and Departments of Neurology and Community and Family Medicine, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC, USA

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  1. Centro Studi Sclerosi Multipla, Universita’ Studi di Milano Ospedale “S. Antonio Abate”, Via Pastori 4, 21013, Gallarate, Italy

    Carlo L. Cazzullo , Domenico Caputo , Angelo Ghezzi  & Mauro Zaffaroni , ,  & 

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Kurtzke, J.F. (1988). Risk Factors, Course, and Prognosis of Multiple Selerosis. In: Cazzullo, C.L., Caputo, D., Ghezzi, A., Zaffaroni, M. (eds) Virology and Immunology in Multiple Sclerosis: Rationale for Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73032-0_13

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