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. 1991 Feb;6(2):41-5.

[Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Asturias]

[Article in Spanish]
D F Uría  1 , P Virgala, P Alonso, J R Crespo, T Calatayud, J M Arribas
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  • PMID: 1863462

[Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Asturias]

[Article in Spanish]
D F Uría et al. Neurologia. 1991 Feb.

Abstract

An epidemiological study of multiple sclerosis carried out in Gijón (Principado de Asturias). It had the methodological peculiarity of having been performed in a reduced population of 81,462 individuals selected from the primary health care centers from which they depended. This permitted a better case finding and both a prospective and retrospective investigation. In the prospective period, the incidence found was 0.49/100,000/year, while it was 1.59 in the retrospective period. The reasons for this difference are discussed. The prevalence was 23.32/100,000. We attribute the fact that this rate is higher than that previously reported for Spain to methodological and perhaps geographical reasons.

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