Childhood and adolescence factors and multiple sclerosis: results from the German National Cohort (NAKO)

Anja Holz; Nadia Obi; Wolfgang Ahrens; Klaus Berger; Barbara Bohn; Hermann Brenner; Beate Fischer; Julia Fricke; Amand Führer; Sylvia Gastell; Karin Halina Greiser; Volker Harth; Jana-Kristin Heise; Bernd Holleczek; Thomas Keil; Carolina J. Klett‐Tammen; Michael F. Leitzmann; Wolfgang Lieb; Claudia Meinke‐Franze; Karin B. Michels; Rafael Mikolajczyk; Katharina Nimptsch; Annette Peters; Tobias Pischon; Oliver Riedel; Tamara Schikowski; Sabine Schipf; Börge Schmidt; Matthias B. Schulze; Andreas Stang; Kerstin Hellwig; Karin Riemann-Lorenz; Christoph Heesen; Heiko Becher

doi:10.1186/s12883-024-03620-4

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Apart from overweight and obesity at the age of 18 years, we did not observe considerable associations with MS risk. The proportion of cases that can be explained by childhood and adolescence factors examined in this study was low. Further investigations of the association between the onset of overweight and obesity in childhood and adolescence and its interaction with physical activity and MS risk seem worthwhile.

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