New Research: Black People Have a HIGHER Risk of Getting MS

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease that targets the central nervous system, causing all sorts of neurological conditions that may worsen over time. And for the longest time, it wasn’t an issue.  Well, that is to say, many people thought it wasn’t an issue, because, for many people in the Black community, MS was strictly a “White” disease.  But now that thought is changing. Formerly believed to predominantly affect Caucasians, new research indicates that MS actually may hit Blacks the hardest. In a recent Neurology study of 2.6 million adults in California, researchers reviewed electronic records coded for MS.  What they found was pretty surprising. By and large, Black women had the highest prevalence of any group stratified by sex and race. They faced significantly higher rates of the disease than Asian women, White women, and all racial groups of men.  Now, as these new findings gain the light of day, more science is beginning to peel back the layers of MS in the Black community… A Shift in Perspective For a long while, MS was considered a “White” disease mostly because that’s what the research found. But what was the research actually looking at?  For one, many...