Gender in MS and More Exercises

November 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Gender has become a dominant factor in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) during the last decades. Already with a ratio of 3.2 to 1 MS is gradually changing into a disease predominantly among women. Since genetic factors can be ruled out as a cause of this gender related increase, scientific attention is on environmental factors that may increase MS risk in women exclusively. Most likely environmental factors include smoking, viral infections, Vitamin D deficiency, hygiene changes and dietary factors.

Almost 400 MS scientists and clinicians from around the world gathered this week during a medical scientific conference on ‘Multiple Sclerosis and Gender’, organized by the independent European Charcot Foundation, to share and discuss their scientific views on the backgrounds of this major shift in gender ratio.

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Sheffield Hallam University has been awarded a new £200,000 research grant to investigate the effects of exercise intervention on sufferers of multiple sclerosis (MS). The MS Society has awarded the grant to the University’s Centre for Sport and Exercise Science, which will study the effects of exercise therapy on physical activity and health outcomes in people living with MS. Led by Dr John Saxton, a Reader in Clinical Exercise Physiology, the grant becomes the third received from the Society by Sheffield Hallam University.

Click the link for more information - Sheffield Hallam University (UK) Explores Exercise Intervention For Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers