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Scientists find adolescent 'kissing disease' can cause multiple sclerosis

Infectious mononucleosis, also known as kissing disease, is associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis in adulthood in childhood or adolescence, according to a new study. Writes about it Fox News.

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To come to such conclusions, researchers from Sweden and the UK looked at data from almost 2,5 million people.

In the study, the authors wrote that they used the Swedish General Population Register to identify persons of Swedish descent from January 1, 1958 to December 31, 1994, who were 25 years of age and both of whose parents were alive, to help identify all first-degree relatives. , as well as in the diagnosis of mononucleosis in parents.

Participants were followed from January 1, 1978 to December 31, 2018, and data was analyzed from October 2020 to July of this year.

The researchers used a unique Swedish personal identification number to link data and identify hospital diagnoses of study members and their first-degree relatives.

They assessed the risk of developing multiple sclerosis associated with mononucleosis in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood.

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The authors adjusted for gender, parental diagnoses, birth order, and parental age at birth. Scientists found that parental age at birth was linearly related to the risk of mononucleosis.

The team of experts took into account the health of the siblings of the participants, which could be important in confirming the role of family genetics in the development of multiple sclerosis.

Of 52,63% of men and 47,37% of women, doctors diagnosed nearly 6000 with multiple sclerosis after 20 years.

Young mothers at childbirth were associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis, while babies born later were associated with a lower risk. Paternal age at birth was not associated with an increased risk of multiple sclerosis.

Infectious mononucleosis in childhood and adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis. Infectious mononucleosis in early adulthood has also been associated with the risk of developing multiple sclerosis, but this risk has been lowered after researchers looked at common familial factors.

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“These data suggest that mononucleosis in childhood, especially adolescence, is a risk factor associated with the development of multiple sclerosis, independent of common family factors,” the authors said.

The researchers found, among other things, that the risk of developing multiple sclerosis decreases the older the person gets mononucleosis.

Mononucleosis is a contagious body disorder that is most often spread through body fluids, including saliva. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the most common cause of infectious mononucleosis, but other viruses can cause this disease.

Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system that ranges from relatively benign to devastating. There is currently no cure for multiple sclerosis, although several drugs have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat one or more forms of the disease.

According to a study by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, about 1 million Americans are living with this diagnosis.

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