Questions Challenging Common MS Knowledge

Challenge Questions to Common MS Knowledge

Can you outsmart researchers in multiple sclerosis and Lyme disease? To aid you in this quest, you’ll want to employ moxie and resourcefulness, take advantage of your God-given common sense, and refer to Sit Down Before Reading, which contain a trail of ah-ha breadcrumbs if you pay attention to the details.

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Challenge #1

Researchers have discovered the average age of onset for MS—when people get diagnosed with multiple sclerosis—has been steadily increasing since the 1990s. Why?

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Challenge #4

Researchers originally believed that MS generally did not cause pain. Today pain is accepted as a common symptom. What is the reality?

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Challenge #7

Latitude and exposure to sunlight is significantly associated with the prevalence and severity of multiple sclerosis. True or false?

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Challenge #2

Mental disorders, such as depression and cognition issues, are common in multiple sclerosis, but full-on psychosis is thought to be rare. How rare?

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Challenge #5

Thousands of published studies have examined the influence of antibiotics and multiple sclerosis. Do these bacteria-fighting drugs have any effect on the disease?

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Challenge #3

Despite observations in clinical practice, to date researchers have been unable to connect a deficiency of vitamin D to multiple sclerosis in randomized trials. Why?

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Challenge #6

True or false: Where a person lives during childhood plays an outsized role into whether that individual later develops multiple sclerosis.

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