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Does the changing sex ratio of multiple sclerosis give opportunities for intervention?

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, June 2015
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Title
Does the changing sex ratio of multiple sclerosis give opportunities for intervention?
Published in
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica, June 2015
DOI 10.1111/ane.12430
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I Boström, A-M Landtblom

Abstract

In several international studies, an increasing women-to-men (w/m) ratio in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been reported. Such sex ratios have been analysed by year of onset or by year of birth. In a Swedish study, data from the Swedish MS register (SMSreg) were used to analyse the w/m ratio in Sweden. The sex ratio was analysed both by year of birth (8834 patients) and by year of onset (9098 patients). No increased w/m ratio was seen in this study. The age-specific sex ratio did not demonstrate any significant changes. However, a new investigation of the sex ratio in Sweden, based on data from all available data sources (19,510 patients), showed a significantly increased w/m ratio of MS in Sweden from 1.70 to 2.67. Environmental factors such as cigarette smoking, hormonal factors and nutrition are of interest in this context, but the cause of the increasing w/m ratio in MS is yet not possible to explain.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 18%
Researcher 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Master 3 11%
Other 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 9 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 8 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 11%
Neuroscience 3 11%
Psychology 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2015.
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#15,739,529
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
#1,479
of 2,168 outputs
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#144,373
of 280,810 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
#21
of 38 outputs
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