Table 1.

Demographics and clinical details of the study groups in this work.

	Patients			Normal controls (NC)
	CIS	RRMS	SPMS	CIS-NC	RRMS-NC	SPMS-NC	All patients	All NCs
N	40	40	40	40	40	40	120	120
Age (years)	36.9±9.8 [20–58]	43.6±10. [27–65]	52.0±7.0 [33–64]	37.0±11.6 [20–59]	44.0±10.0 [19–60]	52.6±11.9 [23–76]	44.1±10.9 [20–65]	44.5±12.8 [19–76]
Sex ratio (F/M)	29:11	27:13	29:11	28:12	30:10	29:11	85:35	87:33
EDSS	1.5, 0.5– 2.5	2.0, 1–3	6.5, 4–9	–	–	–	2.5, 0–7	–
dd (years)	2.2±2.6	9.8±6.0	24.0±10.2	–	–	–	11.9±11.4	–

Values stated as n, m-p represent median, IQR; n±m indicates mean and standard deviation; [m-p] indicates The range. The abbreviation dd stands for disease duration and N is the number of subject.