Gender and Multiple Sclerosis. People with MS please share your gender in our poll

Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

As many of you know by now that in the past I spend 10 or you years working in healthcare survey research.

Much of my time was spend pouring over government produced statistical data which I found later to be complete rubbish.

Now this is particularly the case with multiple sclerosis. The data published regarding types of MS, for example, has always when I have conducted private polling been shown to totally wrong. You can check out some of the data I recently collected here.

The figure given when it comes to the sex of people with multiple sclerosis is that only 20% are male. Now I’m very interested to see if this is true. To do so it would be great if you could share some information in the poll below.

“Multiple sclerosis and gender. Which gender do you identify with?”

I’ve used this particular language because I don’t want to offend anyone so it seemed the easiest way to ask it.

We do need as many people to respond to the poll as possible. It would be great if you could share this page and poll with as many people with multiple sclerosis as you can.

Thanks very much in advance.

Multiple Sclerosis News Flash – Why women are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis according to new research from the Washington University School of Medicine


Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

Welcome to the first in our series of multiple sclerosis news flashes.

If you have any suggestions for MS stories we might cover please feel free to use the comments box to share your ideas.

This story looks at some recent research from the Washington University School of Medicine as to why around 80% of people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis are women.

The BBC share “Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in the US found higher levels of protein S1PR2 in tests on the brains of female mice and dead women with MS than in male equivalents. Four times more women than men are currently diagnosed with MS.”

You can read the whole article here.