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What is MS?
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Idiopathic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system
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What does the disease do ?
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Causes demyelination of the myelin sheath around that surrounds the nerve fibres
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What 3 areas does it affect?
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What does demyelination of the myelin sheath cause to happen to the nerve?
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Nerve impulses are slowed or lost
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What is the ratio of female to men ?
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2.5 female : 1 men
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What is the age of onset?
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Young adult 20-40
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What causes ms?
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Aetiology is unknown but
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What is a hypothesis about something that affects ms?
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Vitamin D - LACK OF VITAMIN D
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What are the 3 types of MS?
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Tell me about relapsing remitting MS?
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Tell me about secondary progressive MS?
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Tell me about primary progressive MS?
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What does the symptoms / profile of patients depend on?
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Where the demyelination or plaques are
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What are motor symptoms of MS?
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What are sensory symptoms of MS?
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