The worldwide distribution of multiple sclerosis (MS) can be described within three zones of
frequency: high, medium, and low. The disease has a predilection for white races and for …

The Faroe Islands are a semi-independent unit of the Kingdom of Denmark and are located
in the North Atlantic Ocean between Norway and Iceland. Efforts to identify all cases of …

In this century, 41 Faroese with MS were ascertained. One subset, after living in Denmark for
2 years between ages 11 and 31, had MS onset an average of 6 years later. In the Faroes …

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is among the most intensively studied neurologic diseases from an
epidemiologic point of view. Its inhomogeneous geographic occurrence has suggested that …

Geographically, multiple sclerosis (MS) seems to be distributed into three zones of high,
medium, and low frequency. High-frequency areas, with prevalence rates over 30 per …

Intensive search over the past five years for all cases of multiple sclerosis (MS) on the Faroe
Islands since about 1920 has revealed 25 cases among native‐born resident Faroese up to …

The decisive conclusions to be drawn from the available epidemiological data, mostly
geography and prevalence, of MS are:(1) a north-south (as well as west-east in the United …

An epidemiological and clinical study of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Orkney and Shetland
Islands showed that the prevalence rate of the disease is the highest in the world (309 and …

There was more neurology taught under Harold G. Wolff at Cornell University Medical
College in New York than perhaps anywhere else in the country when I attended from 1948 …

An epidemiological survey of multiple sclerosis (MS) in three Australian cities, Perth,
Newcastle and Hobart, was undertaken with its prevalence day being the national census …