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May 09, 2016 | Rachel Lutz
Men diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) often have higher blood pressure than women, in addition to higher levels of diabetes, epilepsy, depression, and anxiety, according to findings published in Neurology. Researchers from the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg, Canada studied more than 16,800 MS cases in order to determine the prevalence of comorbidity in MS population at the time of their diagnoses. The researchers matched the MS patients with age, sex and geographically matched controls and estimated the prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, heart disease, chronic lung disease, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia at the patients’ MS diagnoses. –
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