多发性硬化症的可修改风险因素在各种种族背景中具有一致的作用方向:在基于英国人口的队列队列中进行了一项嵌套病例对照研究
Benjamin M Jacobs1,2, Pooja Tank1, Jonathan P Bestwick1
1Centre for Preventive Neurology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University London, London, EC1M 6BQ, UK.
Journal of neurology
|September 7, 2023
概括
多发性硬化症的可修改风险因素,包括吸烟和肥胖,在不同种族群体中同样影响风险. 这些发现凸显了为预防多发性硬化症 (MS) 制定包容性公共卫生战略的必要性.
科学领域:
- 神经学 神经学
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 多发性硬化症 (MS) 是全球年轻人的非创伤性神经障碍的主要原因.
- 以前的研究主要在白人群体中确定了可修改的MS风险因素 (例如,传染性单核病,吸烟,肥胖).
- 这些可修改的风险因素在不同种族群体的影响仍然在很大程度上是未知的.
研究的目的:
- 调查多发性硬化症可修改的风险因素是否在不同种族背景下产生一致的影响.
- 确定种族是否会改变已确定的风险因素与多发性硬化症发展之间的关联.
主要方法:
- 一项嵌套的病例控制研究使用了来自英国临床实践研究数据链接 (CPRD) 的数据.
- 确定了多发性硬化症病例 (诊断为2001-2022年),并根据出生年份与未受影响的对照进行了匹配.
- 分层后勤回归和统计相互作用测试评估了种族对风险因素关联的影响.
主要成果:
- 这项研究包括9,662例多发性硬化病例和118,914例对照病例,具有多样化的种族代表性 (南亚人,黑人,白人).
- 确定的可修改的风险因素 (吸烟,肥胖,传染性单核病,低维生素D,头部损伤) 在黑人和南亚人群中显示出与MS的一致关联.
- 这些风险因素影响的幅度和方向在所有被检查的族群中基本相似,没有发现显著的统计相互作用.
结论:
- 已确定的多发性硬化症可修改的风险因素是相关的,并且适用于不同的种族群体.
- 旨在通过风险因素修改减少多发性硬化症发病率的公共卫生倡议必须包括所有种族群体.
- 这些发现支持MS预防的普遍策略,无论种族.
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