Multiple Sclerosis by the Numbers… but Who’s Counting?
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on September 21st, 2009 in In The News, Linked Articles.
More than a million people in the United States have multiple sclerosis… or is it half a million… or a quarter of a million… but then again, who’s counting?
How many people in the United States have multiple sclerosis… why don’t we know, and does it matter?
We don’t know the exact numbers because MS is not tracked by the Centers for Disease Control or any other federal agency. In fact, there is no coordinated effort at all to track the incidence of MS in the United States. The last national study of MS rates took place in 1975, and much has changed since then.
But the numbers matter… Read this post in its entirety:
September 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
This eternal big question – How Many?!!
Maybe, just maybe, we might better know someday.