Abstract
Background: This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of MS in Mosul City. Methods: A retrospective study was applied in Mosul City for the period between (2020-2000). MS patient’s outpatient of Ibn-Sina Teaching hospital in Mosul City. Assessment of MS status: for the assessment of MS status the Kurtzke EDSS was used. EDSS was based on ten scores (0-10) and categorized the MS severity into three-level; mild disability (EDSS, 0.0 to 3.5), moderate disability (EDSS, 4.0 to 6.5), and severe disability (EDSS, 7.0 to 9.5). Microsoft Excel file was used to analyzed the data, number, percentage, Mean and Standard deviation were computed to analyze all demographic and clinical variables. This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Mosul Health Directorate, at Mosul City –Iraq. Results: the study found that the mean age of patients (34.7) among men and (32.9) among women. The mean age at onset is (28.9) among men and 27.9 among women. In relation to family history, 89.8% of men and 93.9% of women don’t have a positive family history with MS. The majority of the patient have Relapsing-remitting. Conclusion: In conclusion, the prevalence of MS has been steadily rising in Mosul city over the past few decades.
Highlights
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the common a neurodegenerative and immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the among the young-adult’s people central nervous system. (AlJumah et al, 2020)
In relation to family history 89.8% of men and 93.9% of women don’t have positive family history with MS
In conclusion, the prevalence of MS has been steadily rising in the Mosul city over the past few decades
Summary
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the common a neurodegenerative and immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the among the young-adult’s people central nervous system. (AlJumah et al, 2020). Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the common a neurodegenerative and immune-mediated demyelinating disease of the among the young-adult’s people central nervous system. Most of patients have relapsing–remitting disease, which stereoty-pically is tracked by a secondary progressive course, while a minority of patients has a primary progressive course from onset (10%).(Etemadifar et al, 2020) In relation to relapsing–remitting, , most patients between 20-40 years old, their first symptoms of MS.(El-Wahsh, Ballard, Kumfor, Bogaardt, & Disorders, 2020) MS a variety of diseases representing different processes which suggested by the clinical heterogeneity, as well as, the findings of different pathological patterns.(Polat Dunya et al, 2020) In the last decade , association between risk of environmental factors, ident-ification of new genetic factors, and increased understanding the sign-ificance of gene–environment (GxE) interactions have led to a more agreement.(Nazari, Shaygannejad, Sichani, Mansourian, & Hajhashemi, (2020) Patients with MS can imp-ression of stigmatized whereby the individual keeps characteristics that are either internally or externally perceived to be inferior, resulting in devaluation, rejection or exclusion. This study was carried out to assess the prevalence of MS in Mosul City
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