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Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in US veterans. VIII. Long-term survival after onset of multiple sclerosisM T Wallin
Neurology Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC 20422, USA
Brain 123:1677-87. 2000..The lack of difference in male and female relative survival rates suggests that the significant difference in survival between male and female multiple sclerosis cases is, at least in part, a result of sex per se and not the disease...
Multiple sclerosis in US veterans of the Vietnam era and later military service: race, sex, and geographyMitchell T Wallin
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Georgetown University Medical School, Washington, DC, USA
Ann Neurol 55:65-71. 2004..Such marked changes in geography, sex, and race in such a short interval strongly imply a primary environmental factor in the cause or precipitation of this disease...
Multiple sclerosis in the Faroe Islands. 8. Notifiable diseasesM T Wallin
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and MS Center of Excellence East, 50 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA
Acta Neurol Scand 122:102-9. 2010..To seek evidence for a possible infectious origin of the type 1 epidemic of multiple sclerosis (MS) in the Faroe Islands. This began in 1943 coincident with their British military occupation throughout World War II...
Veterans Health Administration multiple sclerosis surveillance registry: The problem of case-finding from administrative databasesWilliam J Culpepper
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Healthcare Outcomes Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 43:17-24. 2006..93, and specificity was 0.90. These findings suggest that the database algorithm reliably eliminated non-MS cases from the initial MSSR population and is a reasonable case-finding method at this intermediate stage of MSSR development...
Depression and multiple sclerosis: Review of a lethal combinationMitchell T Wallin
Department of Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, Washington, DC 20422, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 43:45-62. 2006..This article reviews the unique features, assessment, and treatment of depression in MS. MS care providers should vigilantly assess depression and suicide risk in their patients...
Cognitive dysfunction in multiple sclerosis: Assessment, imaging, and risk factorsMitchell T Wallin
Department of Veterans Affairs VA Medical Center, Washington, DC 20422, USA
J Rehabil Res Dev 43:63-72. 2006..Additionally, candidate risk factors have been identified that may help predict which patients will develop cognitive dysfunction...
The war-related illness and injury study centers: a resource for deployment-related health concernsAndrew E Lincoln
War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center, Washington DC Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 50 Irving Street, NW, Washington, DC 20422, USA
Mil Med 171:577-85. 2006..009) and use of rehabilitation therapies (1.6 additional visits, p = 0.018) followed the NRP referral. The small gain in mental function suggests that the NRP may benefit combat veterans with long and complex medical histories...
Teleneurology in patients with multiple sclerosis: EDSS ratings derived remotely and from hands-on examinationRobert L Kane
VA Medical Center, MS Center of Excellence, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Telemed Telecare 14:190-4. 2008..Agreement between the remote and local examiners was similar to that reported for different neurological examiners directly assessing the same patient using the EDSS rating system...
