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Originally Posted by Debbie D
When I told my DH about CCSVI, he asked, "Then why does MS affect people mostly in areas far from the equator?"
Hmmm...maybe more than one thing can hit the body...
anyway, I'm definitely going to bring this up at the next neuro visit.
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Originally Posted by Jules A
FWIW I don't think MS mostly affects people in areas far from the equator although I guess a majority of the world itself is far from the equator. |
Information from a lot of sources on the prevalence of MS and equatorial distance:
http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm?fuse...ow&pageid=2325
This was one of the first things I thought of when my skepticism gene kicked in when I first started reading about CCSVI. Like I said, there's so much we don't know about the body and the brain...It could be genetics, it could be environmental, it could be diet, it could be we just got the luck of the draw!
I think at this point every theory is worth investigation, and promising theories need more followup.
One question for everyone. My brain doesn't want to answer me right now: Does MS have any association similar to the MJ Fox Foundation, where money is being funneled into the most promising scientific studies? It seems to me that there is one but I cannot recall the name and I would like to see if they are doing any funding of this theory and the studies related to it. TIA!
