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Conclusion: National incidence and risk factor assessments may become a basis for the evaluation of prevention trials – prospects from the Third Nordic MS Symposium
Author(s) -
Andersen O.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
acta neurologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.967
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1600-0404
pISSN - 0001-6314
DOI - 10.1111/ane.12434
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , risk factor , environmental health , pathology , optics , physics
This symposium started with an overview of recent incidence and prevalence data from the Scandinavian national registers and continued with a critical analysis of several alleged risk factors for MS. These risk factors are constantly changing and therefore might explain current incidence changes. In addition, they may be the subject of preventive measures.