What The Study Did: A single-center study of 453 children in Germany with multiple sclerosis (MS) investigated the association of obesity with pediatric MS risk and with the response of first-line therapy in children with MS.
Author: Peter Huppke, M.D., of Georg August University in Göttingen, German, is the corresponding author.
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