What is it about?
Do children with a parent with multiple sclerosis (MS) achieve the same level of education as children of parents without MS?
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Why is it important?
Our results show that children with a parent with MS achieve a higher grade point average in basic school than others. They attain similar levels of education. There is also a trend toward more of the MS offspring attaining a health-related education. We examined this question for children from 15 to 58 years of age. We are the first to examine this question using nationwide registries from Denmark.
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The Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry is the oldest and most complete MS registry in the world, established in 1956 with data on all persons with a definite MS diagnosis from 1947. The Danish registries receive data from all public authorities and this means that the data are independent of a person's memory or responsiveness as in questionnaire studies. Denmark has extensive public and mandatory registries, all linked by a unique personal identification number assigned to each individual Danish resident either by birth or immigration.
Julie Y Moberg
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis: A nationwide register-based cohort study, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-016-8255-4.
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