Research Article
Serum Glutamate Is a Predictor for the Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis
Table 2
Comparison between MS patients and controls using the serum glutamate concentration (nmol/ml).
| Parameters | MS patients
| Healthy control
| (p value) |
| Serum glutamate level nmol/ml (mean ± SD) | () | () | -test HS () |
| Serum glutamate nmol/ml (cut-off) | Hyper (>cut-off) | (41) 74.5% | (9) 36% | HS () Odds ratio = 5.206) | Normal (<cut-off) | (14) 25.5% | (16) 64% |
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