Table 1.
Demographic details of total multiple sclerosis population and controls.
| No. | Gender | Age |
DD |
EDSS |
MSSS |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % f | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Control | 35 | 60.00 | 50.57 | 19.54 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Total MS | 176 | 68.18 | 44.39 | 12.44 | 11.63 | 10.44 | 4.90 | 2.09 | 6.52 | 2.60 |
| S-RRMS | 37 | 83.78 | 41.76 | 9.65 | 8.27 | 9.71 | 2.59 | 1.41 | 4.41 | 2.65 |
| A-RRMS | 68 | 77.94 | 36.28 | 9.05 | 8.47 | 8.09 | 4.56 | 1.53 | 6.64 | 2.53 |
| SPMS | 34 | 50.00 | 54.03 | 9.07 | 22.88 | 10.31 | 6.97 | 1.21 | 7.29 | 2.06 |
| PPMS | 37 | 51.35 | 53.05 | 11.62 | 10.43 | 8.02 | 5.92 | 1.66 | 7.71 | 1.86 |
DD, disease duration; EDSS, Expanded Disability Status Scale; MSSS, MS Severity Score; f, female; SD, standard deviation; S-RRMS, stable relapsing–remitting MS with no relapses reported for at least 12 months; A-RRMS, acute relapsing–remitting MS sampled in relapse; SPMS, secondary progressive MS; PPMS, primary progressive MS.