Table 1.

Demographic, clinical and imaging data.

	RRMS patients	Normal controls
Total number of subjects	49	40
Age at enrolment, years, (mean ± SD)	41.4 ± 9.1	37.4 ± 7.7
Gender	20 M/29F	16 M/24F
Disease duration at enrolment, years (mean ± SD)	5.6 ± 4.5	n/a
EDSS at baseline, median (range)	1.0 (0–5)	n/a
EDSS at follow‐up, median (range)	1.0 (0–6)	n/a
No. of patients on stable treatment	31	n/a
Lesion volume (mm3):
Baseline	5738 ± −5180	n/a
Follow‐up	6520 ± 5681	n/a
New lesions volume, (mm3)	231 ± 234	n/a
Expanding lesion volume, (mm3)	555 ± 775	n/a