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High Levels of a Blood Protein (Hemoglobin) Related to Decreases in Brain Tissue Volume in Small Sample of People with Progressive MS

December 21, 2016

Researchers at Imperial College London found that high levels of the protein hemoglobin in the blood were related to decreases in brain tissue volume (atrophy) in a study of 141 people with secondary progressive MS. Hemoglobin is normally contained within red blood cells, but these findings indicate that it may escape in people with MS, and enter the brain. The team is now working on further studies to confirm and understand the findings.

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Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system that disrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The progress, severity and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are leading to better understanding and moving us closer to a world free of MS. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with at least two to three times more women than men being diagnosed with the disease. MS affects more than 2.3 million people worldwide.

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