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What is multiple sclerosis (MS)? A survey by Ifop for the Foundation for Assistance to Research on Multiple Sclerosis (ARSEP) on the occasion of World Day of September (which took place this Wednesday, May 26) shows that the disease remains relatively little known to the French.

Approximately 44% (60% of those under age 35) feel, wrongly, that multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inherited disease (1). Some 11% think it is a disease that is spread by a virus.

Nearly 7 out of 10 French (69%), but 1 of 2 (51%) in less than 24 years, know that MS is a neurological disease. The other, not knowing the illness, would rather say it is a blood disease (19%), skin (10%) or respiratory (2%). Women are better informed than men: 73% know it is a neurological disease against 65%.

Some 35% of respondents reported knowing someone with the disease in their surroundings. These are the people best informed: 83% of them know it is a neurological disease compared to 61% of French people not familiar with.

Multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory disease, autoimmune, central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) in which the immune system attacks myelin, a protective sheath of nerves. It is estimated that 80,000 people are living in France and 350,000 in Europe.

This survey was conducted by Ifop online questionnaire with a sample of 1004 people.

(1) A study published last April just confirmed that if genes play a role in the development of disease, environmental factors play a key role.

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