United States residents continue to have the highest prevalence of multiple sclerosis . However, new data show the disease is becoming more racially diverse, with a higher prevalence in Black people than previously thought.Researchers applied a validated case-finding algorithm to health claims datasets from private, military, and public insurance programs
They stratified results by age, sex, race, and ethnicity, and looked at prevalence in different geographic regions of the USResearchers identified 744,781 subjects with MS . Participants aged 45-54 years made up nearly a third of the group, followed by those aged 55-64 years , and those aged 35-44 The estimated prevalence per 100,000, was highest for Whites at 374.8 , followed by Blacks , a prevalence higher than previously reported, then non-Hispanic other groups , and Hispanics at 161.2