Re: Heat confusion

"Rob Duncan" <robduncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
><equinoxnova@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>> I'm trying to get to the bottom of this myself. The conventional
>> wisdom seems to be that heat effects are temporary and symptomatic
>> only. But I have seen studies comparing, for example, disability
>> progression and mortality rates for large (~300) numbers of MS patients
>> in both Los Angeles County and whatever county Seattle is in, over a
>> period of 25 years. The patients in Los Angeles county had
>> significantly worse disease progression and mortality rates as compared
>> to the patients in Seattle when controlling for as many factors as
>> possible.
>>
>> The authors' conclusion was that climate had to play a role and that MS
>> sufferers should avoid heat whenever possible. Since I live in Los
>> Angeles, this is rather important to me. Perhaps it is played down
>> since so many patients have no choice about where they live?
>>
>
>Could you point any of us to any of these so-called studies? Ive read well
>over 10,000 studies in regard to MS and for some reason recall none of which
>you say. And that, to put it mildly, is unusual. Perhaps I just didnt run
>across them, but ive a hard time believing that. But.... I suppose it could
>happen.
>

Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 248 No. 7
Factors associated with a malignant or benign course of multiple
sclerosis.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6212700

There you go. What do you think? Like I said, I live in Los Angeles
so this is rather of concern to me as I'm having what appears to have
started out as a relatively aggressive course.

Q

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