Researchers have determined the 5 warning signs that allow a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis to be established. They estimate that several biological mechanisms can appear up to 5 years before the disease.
Multiple sclerosis affects 120,000 people in France, mainly women. This is a disease “young adult”, which is often diagnosed between the ages of 25 and 35 and which is eurological and autoimmune. This disease is very difficult to diagnose since the symptoms are often invisible. We sometimes notice very serious fatigue, problems with concentration and memory or even walking problems. According to French researchers, it is estimated that 5 symptoms are used to establish a subsequent diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
Among them, we find depression or even sexual disorders. “In their study, the researchers used anonymized medical records, in which symptoms are represented by a generic “disease code”, and not by a precise clinical description (to preserve anonymity, precisely). “Sexual disorders” can therefore a priori concern any discomfort, pain or loss of sexual function. which poses a problem in the lives of patients, and which they have declared to their doctor“, we can read. The other three symptoms are constipation, cystitis or other urinary tract infections.
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“We can say that these are warning clinical signs”
Prof. Céline Louapre (Sorbonne University, AP-HP), neurologist at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital and head of the clinical investigation center of the Institut du Cerveau, explained in particular about these symptoms: “We can affirm that these are warning clinical signsprobably related to damage to the nervous system, in patients who will later be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis […] The over-representation of these symptoms persisted and increased during five years after diagnosis“, she revealed. And continued: “By themselves, these signs will not be enough to make an early diagnosis but they will certainly help us to better understand the mechanisms of multiple sclerosis.”
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