What is it about?
Extremely little is known about how parental multiple sclerosis (MS) impact offspring into their adult life. This study examines adult offspring's rate of employment, disability pension and level of income.
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This is the first nationwide register-based cohort study conducted on adult children of parents with multiple sclerosis (MS). To the best of our knowledge, only two other studies have been performed on adult offspring of parents with MS (and the two studies' also included parents with other chronic illnesses). Those two studies were interview or questionnaire studies whereas our study is based on public nationwide registries in Denmark. The 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.
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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. 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: Employment, disability pension and income for children with parental multiple sclerosis, Multiple Sclerosis Journal, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1352458516672016.
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