Research Article
Linkage of Multiple Sclerosis and Guillain-Barre Syndrome: A Population-Based Survey in Isfahan, Iran
Table 2
Frequency of MS in the general population and in two estimated GBS populations; the comparison of two frequencies via statistics.
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MS: Multiple sclerosis, GBS: Guillain-Barre' Syndrome, OR: odds Ratio, CI: confidence interval. *The population in each year within this period are as follows (count (year)): 3511631 (1989), 3589238 (1990), 3682444 (1991), 3718789 (1992), 3768620 (1993), 3819119 (1994), 3870295 (1995), 3923255 (1996), 3982496 (1997), 4042631 (1998), 4103674 (1999), 4165639 (2000), 4228540 (2001), 4292390 (2002), 4357205 (2003), 4422998 (2004), 4489785 (2005), 4559256 (2006). (Source: Iranian Central Bureau of statistics). **The epidemiologic data of MS in Isfahan (i.e. prevalence and sex ratio) was extracted from our recent works [5]. |