TABLE 3. Relationship Between Age and the Patient’s Sex, Response to Acute Attack Treatment, and Clinical Follow-up Diagnosis.

		n	Mean age	S	t/F	p
Sex	Female	59	32.95	15,056	-0.433	0.666
	Male	45	34.13	12,009
Response to acute attack treatment	Complete	55	29.15	11,696	-3.421	0.001*
	Partial	43	38.26	14,674
Clinical follow-up diagnosis	MS	3	29.31	18,402	1.02	0.387
	ADEM	15	22.42	17,301
	NMOSD	39	35.56	15,136
	Isolated optic neuritis	31	34.42	9,743
	Isolated myelitis	11	33.82	9,250

MS, multiple sclerosis; ADEM, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; NMOSD, neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.