Disability and progression in Afro-descendant patients with multiple sclerosis

ABSTRACT Multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence is higher in Caucasian (CA) populations, narrowing the analysis of the impact of Afro-descendant (AD) populations in disease outcomes. Even so, recent studies observed that AD patients have a more severe course. The main objective of this study is to confi...

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Main Authors: Juliana Calvet Kallenbach Aurenção, Claudia Cristina Ferreira Vasconcelos, Luiz Claudio Santos Thuler, Regina Maria Papais Alvarenga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO)
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2016001000836&lng=en&tlng=en