Having the 'kissing disease' as a kid, teen may increase your chance of developing multiple sclerosis

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/having-the-kissing-disease-as-a-kid-teen-
may-increase-your-chance-of-developing-multiple-sclerosis/

Infectious mononucleosis – also known as “mono” or “the kissing disease” –
in childhood or adolescence is associated with an increased risk of
developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as an adult, according to a new study.

In order to reach these conclusions, researchers from Sweden and the
United Kingdom used data from nearly 2.5 million Swedish people.

In the population-based cohort study, published earlier this month in the
journal JAMA Network Open. the authors wrote that they had used the
Swedish Total Population Register to identify Swedish-born individuals
from Jan. 1, 1958, to Dec. 31, 1994, who reached 25 years of age from Jan.
1, 1990, to Dec. 31, 2019, with both parents alive in 1990, in order to
aid in the identification of all first-degree relatives as well as MS
diagnoses in parents.

Participants aged 20 years were followed up from Jan. 1, 1978, to Dec. 31,
2018 and the data was analyzed from October 2020 through July of this
year.

The researchers used the unique individual Swedish personal identification
number to link data across various registers and identify cohort members’
hospital-based diagnoses and their first-degree relatives.

They estimated the risk of an MS diagnosis associated with MS in
childhood, adolescence and early adulthood using STATA for data analysis
and Conventional Cox proportional hazards regression models.

The authors adjusted for sex, parental MS diagnosis, birth order and
parental age at birth and the group said second-degree fractional
polynomials suggested that parental age at birth was linearly associated
with risk of an MS diagnosis.

The team also took into account the health of the participants’ siblings –
which could make the difference in confirming or discounting the role of
familial genetics in the development of MS – and fractional polynomials
for the stratified Cox proportional hazards regression also suggested that
parental age at birth was linearly associated with risk of an MS
diagnosis.

Of the 52.63 percent who were men and the 47.37 percent who were women,
doctors diagnosed nearly 6,000 with MS after the age of 20.

Results from stratified Cox proportional hazards regression indicated that
being female and older maternal age at birth were associated with
increased risk of an MS diagnosis, while later-born children were at lower
risk of being diagnosed with MS compared with first-born children. The
paternal age at birth was not associated with an increased risk of an MS
diagnosis.

Infectious mononucleosis in childhood and adolescence – with a higher risk
in adolescence – was associated with an increased risk of an MS diagnosis
that remained significant after controlling for shared familial factors in
stratified Cox proportional hazards regression. Infectious mononucleosis
in early adulthood was also associated with risk of a subsequent MS
diagnosis, but the risk was attenuated and was not significant after the
researchers controlled for shared familial factors.

“These findings suggest that IM in childhood and particularly adolescence
is a risk factor associated with a diagnosis of MS, independent of shared
familial factors,” the authors said.

The researchers also found that the risk of developing MS falls, the older
a person contracting mono gets.

“Hospital-diagnosed [mono] in childhood and most notably in adolescence
was associated with increased risk of a subsequent MS diagnosis,
independent of measured and unmeasured shared familial factors addressed
by stratified Cox proportional hazards regression. There was less evidence
of an independent association of MS with IM in early adulthood,” they
said. “This age-defined pattern of risk may reflect variation in
susceptibility to environmental exposures due to developmental changes of
the immune system and [central nervous system].”

Mono is a contagious disease spread most commonly through bodily fluids,
including saliva. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is the most common cause of
infectious mononucleosis, but other viruses can cause the disease.

MS is an unpredictable disease of the central nervous system, ranging from
relatively benign to devastating. There is currently no cure for MS,
though several drugs have been approved by the US Food and Drug
Administration to treat one or more forms of multiple sclerosis.

According to a National MS Society study, nearly 1 million Americans are
living with MS.



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