Table 1. Anthropometry and clinical predictors in the Multiple Sclerosis and control groups, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, 2020.

Variables	MS group	Control group	p
Sample size, n	70	71	0.933
Sex, Male - Female	21 - 49	21 - 50	0.956
Age, Years	37.0 (19.2)	38.0 (18.0)	0.439
Mini-Mental State Examination, score	28.0 (2.0)	29.0 (2.0)	0.079
Level of anxiety, score	7.0 (6.0)	7.0 (5.0)	0.950
Level of depression, score	4.0 (5.2)	4.0 (5.0)	0.446
Disease duration, Years	4.0 (7.0)	-----	-----
Expanded Disability Status Scale, score	2.5 (2.0)	-----	-----

Data is expressed in median (interquartile range), and frequency of events; P value of the chi-squared test for sample size and sex; P value of the Mann Whitney U-test for the other variables.