Table 1.

Demographic and clinical features of people with multiple sclerosis and healthy controls.

	pwMS	Healthy Controls	p Value
Age	45.2 ± 9.2 years	41.1 ± 6.9 years	0.521
Sex, n	F: 33 M: 22	F: 16 M: 15	0.461
Age at onset	32.1 ± 8.7 years	-
Disease duration	13.1 ± 9.1 years	-
Baseline EDSS score	2.5 (range: 1.5–4.5)	-
Follow-up EDSS score	3.0 (range: 1.5–5.0)	-

EDSS: expanded disability status scale; pwMS: people with MS. Data are expressed as mean values ± SD except for EDSS expressed as median values.