Who can be affected?
The rate of multiple sclerosis is higher among women than men by about 50% (ie at a rate of 3 women for every 2 men).
Multiple sclerosis is a disease of the young adult, the general age is between 29-33, but this spectrum is much wider, from 10 to 59 years. With the advent of specialized diagnostic techniques, such as scanner with magnetic resonance (NMR) there have been cases of MS diagnosed in childhood not only in adolescence, so that the lower end of the age of 15 years expressed in specialized texts should not be be seen as a fixed limit as diagnosis of the disease. MS is not contagious, friends and your family not being in danger. MS is not a hereditary disease although there is a genetic predisposition, which explains the higher frequency in families where the disease is already existent . Increased risk among children and others people with MS may be a consequence of similar environment and a common predisposition to disease.
It is important to make estimates about those who are most exposed, and geographic areas with the highest incidence. MS Elevation map is inferred from the fact that MS is a disease of temperate climate and especially not a tropical climate (MS incidence increases as the removal of the Equator). In Northern Europe, especially in Scandinavia and in Scotland there was a higher incidence of disease, reflecting a population predisposed to MS. Migration to certain age can affect the risk of disease. Thus, a child who comes from Guinea in an temperatre area is exposed to a risk factor in the zone that hemoved. Migration of a teenager (or a mature people) keeps the risk factor of the area from which it originates.
