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. 2022 Nov 17;24:100542. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100542

Table 1.

Description of vital status, sex, EDI score and age at onset of MS overall and according to MS phenotype.

Overall (n = 34,169) n (%) R-MS (n = 30,083) n (%) PPMS (n = 4086) n (%)
Vital status as of 2016/01/01
 Deceased 1849 (5.4%) 1311 (4.4%) 538 (13.2%)
 Lost to follow-up 2350 (6.9%) 2054 (6.8%) 296 (7‧2%)
 Alive 29,970 (87.7%) 26,718 (88.8%) 3252 (79.6%)
Sex
 Men 9848 (28.8%) 8057 (26.8%) 1791 (43.8%)
 Women 24,321 (71.2%) 22,026 (73.2%) 2295 (56.2%)
EDI
 Median [percentiles 2.5; 97.5] −0.6 [−5.6; 11.9] −0.6 [−5.6; 11.8] −0.6 [−5.5; 12.6]
Age at MS onset
 Median [quartiles 1–3] 31.7 [24.9–40.0] 30.4 [24.3–38.1] 43.2 [35.0–50.3]
Year of onset of symptoms
 [1960–1970] 655 (1.9%) 602 (2.0%) 53 (1.3%)
 [1970–1980] 2114 (6.2%) 1926 (6.4%) 188 (4.6%)
 [1980–1990] 5025 (14.7%) 4449 (14.8%) 576 (14.1%)
 [1990–2000] 9917 (29.0%) 8628 (28.7%) 1289 (31.6%)
 [2000–2010] 12,155 (35.6%) 10,545 (35.1%) 1610 (39.4%)
 [2010–2015] 4303 (12.6%) 3933 (13.1%) 370 (9.1%)
Follow-up (years)
 Median [quartiles 1–3] 15.7 [9.1–23.7] 15.8 [9.0–24.0] 15.2 [9.6–22.0]