Open AccessAntecedent Disease Is Less Prevalent in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Author(s) -
Cassie S. Mitchell,
Sabrina K. Hollinger,
Shivani D. Goswami,
Meraida Polak,
Robert H. Lee,
Jonathan D. Glass
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
neurodegenerative diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.98
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1660-2862
pISSN - 1660-2854
DOI - 10.1159/000369812
Subject(s) - medicine , amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , population , odds ratio , disease , environmental health
Recent studies suggest that antecedent disease could impact the pathophysiology of the motoneuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). We performed a case-control study to examine the prevalence of 11 antecedent diseases in ALS.
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