Multiple sclerosis distribution in northern Sardinia: spatial cluster analysis of prevalence

M Pugliatti, G Solinas, S Sotgiu, P Castiglia, G Rosati - Neurology, 2002 - AAN Enterprises
distribution of MS prevalence in the province of Sassari in northern Sardinia by means of
spatial cluster analysis… The current study is a spatial a priori cluster analysis of MS distribution in …

Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in south-western Sardinia

E Cocco, C Sardu, R Massa, E Mamusa… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
northern Sardinia, 1 while, to date, no data exist concerning the southern part… We carried out
an epidemiological study in south-western Sardinia (… Prevalence and spatial cluster analysis

Clustering of multiple sclerosis, age of onset and gender in Sardinia

M Pugliatti, P Cossu, S Sotgiu, G Rosati… - Journal of the neurological …, 2009 - Elsevier
… factors in modulating MS incidence in Sardinians. Its steady … Space–time cluster analysis
helps give clues as to the period … in northern Sardinians was explored with space–time cluster

Evidence of early childhood as the susceptibility period in multiple sclerosis: space-time cluster analysis in a Sardinian population

M Pugliatti, T Riise, MA Sotgiu, WM Satta… - … of epidemiology, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… the increasing incidence of MS in northern Sardinia are … study, we aimed to identify and
characterize the susceptibility period of MS in Sardinia, Italy, using space-time cluster analysis, …

Multiple sclerosis spatial cluster in Tuscany

D Bezzini, P Pepe, F Profili, G Meucci, M Ulivelli… - Neurological …, 2017 - Springer
… the higher prevalence and incidence rates were observed in Sardinia [10] and not in the
northern … In addition, cluster analysis represents not only an important tool for the surveillance of …

Increased prevalence of multiple sclerosis and clusters of different disease risk in Northern Italy

R Bergamaschi, MC Monti, L Trivelli, VP Introcaso… - Neurological …, 2020 - Springer
… respect to the past spatial cluster analysis conducted in the year … to the Sardinian main island,
had a lower prevalence than … applied in Sardinia identified a high-prevalence MS cluster in …

Epidemiological studies of multiple sclerosis in a Sardinian population, insular Italy: cluster studies and health status

M Pugliatti - 2007 - bora.uib.no
… and the increasing incidence of MS in northern Sardinia are … period of MS in Sardinia, Italy,
using spacetime cluster analysis, … Over the past three decades, the population of Sardinia has …

An ecologic study of geographical variation in multiple sclerosis risk in central Sardinia, Italy

C Montomoli, C Allemani, G Solinas, G Motta… - …, 2002 - karger.com
… We analyzed the variation in MS prevalence with a fine … a priori belief in a simple spatially
unstructured extra-binomial variation; … AW: Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in the north-east (…

A possible spatial and temporal cluster of multiple sclerosis in the town of Linguaglossa, Sicily

A Nicoletti, S Lo Fermo, E Reggio, R Tarantello… - Journal of …, 2005 - Springer
… rates, close to those reported in Sardinia, have been found in … a prevalence of 120.2/100,000
and a mean annual incidence … Post hoc cluster analysis is referred to cluster studies that try …

Immunogenetic heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis in Sardinia

S Sotgiu, M Pugliatti, G Solinas, P Castiglia… - Neurological …, 2001 - Springer
… This is well demonstrated by the fact that the northern … and found that the MS prevalence
rate had risen to 144.4 per … was used for the spatial cluster analysis of prevalent cases in …