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Multiple sclerosis epidemiological trends in Italy highlight the environmental risk factors

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JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY
卷 269, 期 4, 页码 1817-1824

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-021-10782-5

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Multiple sclerosis; Epidemiology; Incidence; Prevalence

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Italy is considered a high-risk country for multiple sclerosis (MS), with the incidence and prevalence gradually increasing over the past years. Research suggests that environmental factors may better explain this trend than genetic heterogeneity.
Italy is definitely a high-risk country for multiple sclerosis (MS). Over the last 50 years, several epidemiological studies, including longitudinal surveys, have disclosed that MS incidence and prevalence in Italy mainland and Islands (Sardinia and Sicily) have progressively increased, picturing a semi-parabolic curve. Based on the comprehensive scrutiny of 58 papers, we conclude that the latitude risk gradient does not fit to the Italian map of MS. The genetic heterogeneity of the Italian ethnicities, that likely forms the basis of MS predisposition, does not account for the dramatic increase of MS incidence and prevalence observed in Italy over the last half century that, rather, seems better explained by the effect of environmental factors.

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