Table 1.

Clinical and demographic data

Case ID	Gender (m/f)	Age at death (year)	Post-mortem delay (hours)	Cause of death	Disease duration (year)	Time progressive (year)	Time wheelchair (year)
C14	m	64	18	Cardiac failure	NA	NA	NA
C25	m	35	22	Carcinoma of the tongue	NA	NA	NA
C28	f	60	13	Ovarian cancer	NA	NA	NA
C36	m	68	30	Heart failure, fibrosing alveolitis, artherome	NA	NA	NA
C45	m	77	22	Cardio pulmonary degeneration	NA	NA	NA
C48a	m	68	10	Metastatic colon cancer	NA	NA	NA
MS330	f	59	21	Pneumonia, MS	39	24	21
MS342	f	35	9	MS	5	1	1
MS352	m	43	26	Bronchopneumonia, MS	18	14	10
MS371	m	40	27	Pneumonia	16	7	4
MS377	f	50	22	Pneumonia, MS	23	3	Unknown
MS402	m	46	12	Pneumonia, MS	26	9	7
MS403	f	54	11	MS	26	15	6
MS404	f	55	17	Septicaemia, shock, pneumonia	34	20	2
MS405	m	62	12	Septicaemia, MS, metastatic colon cancer	25	20	18
MS408b	m	39	21	Pneumonia, sepsis	11	5	2
MS426c	f	48	21	MS	19	19	13
MS438	f	53	17	MS	12	4	4
MS445d	f	62	13	Lower respiratory tract infection, MS	38	13	15
MS461	m	43	13	Pneumonia, MS	21	12	12
MS473e	f	39	9	Pneumonia, MS	13	10	6
MS513	m	51	17	MS, respiratory failure	18	15	14
MS527f	m	47	10	Pneumonia, MS	25	15	13
MS528	f	45	17	MS	25	10	3
MS530g	m	42	15	MS	21	15	14
MS535h	f	65	12	MS	40	25	20

^aExcluded from Figs. 2f, 3b,f and 5e

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^hExcluded from Fig. 5e (all layers)