Published in:
01-02-2010 | Letter to the editor
Alaska, multiple sclerosis, and the vitamin D hypothesis
Authors:
Trygve Holmøy, Margitta T. Kampman
Published in:
Journal of Neurology
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Issue 2/2010
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Excerpt
In their recent paper on the relative risk and estimated prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS) among Alaskan military veterans, Wallin and coworkers found that migration from coterminous US to Alaska decreases MS risk, and that migration in the opposite direction increases it [
8]. They conclude that their findings do not support the vitamin D and sunlight ecological hypothesis of MS [
1]. We think this is not necessarily correct. …