Multiparity in women with multiple sclerosis causes less long-term disability: Commentary

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Confavreux

Hutchinson

Hours

. Rate of pregnancy-related relapse in multiple sclerosis. Pregnancy in Multiple Sclerosis Group. N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 285–291.

Vukusic

Hutchinson

Hours

. The Pregnancy In Multiple Sclerosis Group. Pregnancy and multiple sclerosis (the PRIMS study): Clinical predictors of post-partum relapse. Brain 2004; 127: 1353–1360.

D’hooghe

Nagels

Uitdehaag

BM.

Long-term effects of childbirth in MS. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2010; 81: 38–41.

D’hooghe

Haentjens

Nagels

. Menarche, oral contraceptives, pregnancy and progression of disability in relapsing onset and progressive onset multiple sclerosis. J Neurol 2012; 259: 855–861.

D’hooghe

D’Hooghe

De Keyser

Female gender and reproductive factors affecting risk, relapses and progression in multiple sclerosis. Gynecol Obstet Invest 2013; 75: 73–84.

Kim

Leckman

Mayes

. The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period. Behav Neurosci 2010; 124: 695–700.