Table 1. Clinical and demographic features of MS patients and control.

	RRMS			Control
	Active	Remission	Total
N	12	19	31	36
Sex (M/F)	3/9	7/12	10/21	14/36
Age (SD)	39.3 (10.6)	45.2 (10.2)	42.9 (10.6)	40.3 (7.3)
Age of onset	32.6 (7.9)	37.2 (11.5)	35.4 (10.4)	–
BMI	32.7 (7.4)	26.2 (5.5)	28.0 (6.3)	27.8 (4.7)
Disease severity				–
EDSS
<3	7	12	19
3–5	3	0	3
>6	0	2	2
ND	3	5	8
Therapy
IFNb	7	7	14
Copax	0	1	1
Tysabri	1	4	5
None	4	7	11