Multiple Sclerosis
Young Smokers Increase Risk for Multiple Sclerosis
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 12th, 2009
The study involved 87 people with MS who were among more than 30,000 people in a larger study. The people with MS were divided into three groups: non-smokers, early smokers (smokers who began before age 17), and late smokers (those who started smoking at 17 or older), and matched by age, gender, and race to 435 people without MS.
Early smokers were 2.7 times more likely to develop MS than nonsmokers....
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