I need your help.

My DD is doing a report in Biology on MS (Yes, very proud mom here)

I have been trying to find her one of the MS maps but for the life of me I can't seem to remember where to find it.

Does anyone have a link?

http://www.atlasofms.org/welcome.aspx

Interesting link, Cheryl.

None of the maps seem to be the same. The one I've always referred to is below, because it is a good north/south gradient visual:



(I don't happen to believe the north/south gradient theory anyway, but it's a cool pic of it. )

Cherie

I use the atlasofms.org too, LA, it's nice to be able to look at any number of combinations of countries and regions, etc., hospital populations, available MRI facilities across the globe, number of neurologists in a given nation or continent, etc. It's also an ongoing research project with almost daily updates.

You can easily get the MS population for any nation, region, continent and more.

Incidentally, Cherie, is that the famous 1965 map?

I know you'll all be very interested in this!

If you look at the green and yellow map of Australia (on Cherie's map)...Tasmania is that little red heart at the bottom!

Just thought you'd like to know that!


If you look v-e-r-y closely, you can see me waving!

NO, couldn't be . . . in 1965 everything was still in black and white, wasn't it?

Yeah, it's an old map . . . but the funny thing is that people still refer to it to prove the north/south gradient relationship. I guess it serves a purpose. I just like to think vitamin D is going to make it all better.

The stats don't appear correct, even on some of the newest maps either. They smooth over large statistical variances, like the fact that one of our provinces, Alberta, has an average of something like 311:100,000. No where on ANY prevalence map that I've seen, do they even have a category for such a high level.

Oh well, if you average it over some of the other provinces, I guess it works out in the wash (however deviating from the "clusters" that are around the world).

Cherie

Here is a research study with a map that shows some overlap of MS to Lyme disease...or something like that...

http://www.canlyme.com/megan_geostat...analysis2.html

It's been awhile since I read it, and for some reason I dont remember all of what it says, and my brain cant seem to concentrate on what it says today....

everyone



I will let my daughter choose which one she wants to use. She asked her biology teacher if she could do the project on MS because there are specific questions they need to ansewr about their disease of choice and as we know and as my daughter knows there is still alot unknown about MS.

He told to go ahead with MS and then proceeded to tell her he just had a call from his cousin the other day - his cousin was just dx'd with MS.

This is a partner project. My DD asked her partner if doing it on Multiple Sclerosis was okay with her and her partner said that's fine. Then my little sweetheart asked her partner if she knew what MS was. The response was - Yeah, isn't that the disease that affects the muscles. My DD told her no that's MD

Again, Thank you so much for your help

Here's the one I posted about a while back. Geography is a good career now a days! It's been bery, bery good to me! (well ok, not that good, but it is fun)

http://www.msgeographics.com/

. The response was - Yeah, isn't that the disease that affects the muscles. My DD told her no that's MD [/QUOTE]

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