Does multiple sclerosis–associated disability differ between races?
- 25 April 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurology
- Vol. 66 (8), 1235-1240
- https://doi.org/10.1212/01.wnl.0000208505.81912.82
Abstract
Objective: To investigate differences in disability between African American and Caucasian patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) by comparing the relationship between current age and disability between races and by assessing the effect of adjustment for socioeconomic status (SES) on the associations.Keywords
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