Sex ratio and age of onset in AQP4 antibody-associated NMOSD: a review and meta-analysis.

Simon V Arnett Sin Hong Chew Unnah Leitner Jyh Yung Hor Friedemann Paul Michael R Yeaman Michael Levy Brian G Weinshenker Brenda L Banwell Kazuo Fujihara Hesham Abboud Irena Dujmovic Basuroski Georgina Arrambide Veronika E Neubrand Chao Quan Esther Melamed Jacqueline Palace Cheng Chi Nasrin Asgari Simon A Broadleynull null

Published in: Journal of neurology (2024)

The female:male sex ratio and the mean age of onset of AQP4 antibody-associated NMOSD are significantly higher than MS. The sex ratio increases with the proportion of cases that are positive for AQP4 antibodies and the mean age of onset increases with population life expectancy.

Keyphrases

multiple sclerosis
mass spectrometry
ms ms