Assessment of Early Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Clinically Isolated Syndromes and Multiple Sclerosis

Table 1

Clinical and demographic characteristic of the patients and controls.

	Early MS	Controls
Number	46	40
CIS	8	—
RRMS	38	—
Age; (mean, SD, range)	30.41±9.36; (18–49)	34.7±7.92; (22–50)
Gender (female/male)	30/16	26/14
Education years; (mean, SD, range)	11±3.85; (5–16 years)	11.4±3.58; (5–16 years)
EDSS; (median, range)	0.0 (0.0–5.0)	—
Disease duration at the time of evaluation, years; (mean, SD, range)	1.11±0.55; (2 months–2 years)	—
Time from onset of symptoms to definite diagnosis of RRMS, months; (mean, SD, range)	5.97±5.1; (1–24 months)	—