{"id":35183,"date":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/exposure-to-urban-air-pollution-may-up-risk-of-multiple-sclerosis\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T16:10:06","slug":"exposure-to-urban-air-pollution-may-up-risk-of-multiple-sclerosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/exposure-to-urban-air-pollution-may-up-risk-of-multiple-sclerosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to Urban Air Pollution May Up Risk of Multiple Sclerosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Adjusted risk 29 percent higher among those residing in more urbanized areas<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>FRIDAY, May 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Air pollution may be an environmental risk factor for multiple sclerosis, according to a study presented May 22 at the European Academy of Neurology Virtual Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Bergamaschi, M.D., Ph.D., from the IRCCS Mondino Foundation in Pavia, Italy, and colleagues investigated the association of air pollution (generalized particulate matter 2.5 \u00b5m in size [PM<sub>2.5<\/sub>]) with multiple sclerosis prevalence in the Italian province of Pavia (population: 547,251 residents). The analysis included 927 patients with multiple sclerosis cases (66 percent women). The European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme database was used for spatial emission data (winter ground-level PM<sub>2.5<\/sub> concentrations for 188 municipalities between 2010 and 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the overall multiple sclerosis prevalence in Pavia was 169.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, up from 16 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 1974. There was significantly higher multiple sclerosis risk among persons living in areas with PM<sub>2.5<\/sub> concentration higher than the European threshold limit (25 \u00b5g\/m\u00b3).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The detection of high-risk clusters with an excess number of multiple sclerosis cases encourages analytical studies in those areas to analyze multiple environmental factors related to the different distribution of the multiple sclerosis,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ean.org\/congress-2020\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjusted risk 29 percent higher among those residing in more urbanized areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-35183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}