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Old 10-02-2006, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by wannabe View Post
The oldest age of diagnosis? Ummm.... on autopsy. Many many people were diagnosed after death on autopsy when they discovered their lesions then.
I'd have to do some digging to figure out the prominant Neuro in the US that confirmed this, but according to him, apparently 8% - 10% of the general population has MS and is never dx until autopsy. So you are correct!

I have heard of people dx in their mid-fifties, but that was the oldest living persons that I've personally read of.

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