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Working Towards Earlier Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis (www.news-medical.net)

submitted 1 year ago by ZenGrammy to c/neurodegdissupport

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I feel like this is a common problem in neuro diseases. If only we could get an earlier diagnosis, we would have fewer people seriously disabled by these diseases at a young age, while they visit their doctors over and over begging for some sort of help.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MS is very common in Western New York… home of Love Canal and plenty of less-publicized toxic dumping.

Apparently Syracuse is the chart-topper: https://cnycentral.com/news/local/the-ms-mystery-in-syracuse-why-do-we-have-highest-rate-of-multiple-sclerosis-nationwide

Old data (2010), but the 7th page of this pdf shows the northeast generally highest US-wide: https://n.neurology.org/content/neurology/92/10/e1029.full.pdf

"Old data" because a 2019 study doubled the estimate of people living with MS: https://www.nationalmssociety.org/About-the-Society/MS-Prevalence