{"id":127403,"date":"2021-09-08T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/multiple-sclerosis-linked-to-infection-in-adolescence"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:22:57","slug":"multiple-sclerosis-linked-to-infection-in-adolescence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/multiple-sclerosis-linked-to-infection-in-adolescence","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Sclerosis Linked to Infection in Adolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/multiple-sclerosis-linked-to-infection-in-adolescence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This makes sense, as we believe that inflammation in the central nervous system can start the autoimmune process (when a person\u2019s immune system attacks part of their body) that causes MS.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong><em>Summary: <\/em><\/strong><em>A new study links viral infections including mononucleosis and pneumonia experienced during adolescence with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <\/em><\/strong><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Multiple sclerosis (MS) is most often diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50. Certain genes put a person at greater risk of getting this disease of the central nervous system, but scientists are still trying to understand the triggers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My colleagues and I have been studying these triggers for many years. Our earlier research found that <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33681783\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pneumonia in adolescence<\/a> is associated with a raised risk of MS, so we decided to investigate whether other types of infection are associated with the condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This makes sense, as we believe that inflammation in the central nervous system can start the autoimmune process (when a person\u2019s immune system attacks part of their body) that causes MS. Summary: A new study links viral infections including mononucleosis and pneumonia experienced during adolescence with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis. Source: The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}