date:Nov 05, 2012
A new study in Multiple Sclerosis Journal found men and women having a body mass index of 27 kg/m2 or higher at the age of 20 were twice as likely as those who had a normal body index to develop multiple sclerosis (MS).
Anna K Hedstrm from Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm in Sweden and colleagues compared 1571 cases of multiple sclerosis and 3371 controls from a Swedish population for their BMI at the age of 20 years and found the association.
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