More MS news articles for June 2004

Amalgam fillings and MS

http://www.bostoncure.org:8080/article.pl?sid=04/06/07/1036203&mode=nested

June 7th, 2004
Art Mellor
Boston Cure Project

A retrospective study looked at risk of various disorders as influenced by amalgam fillings. MS was one of the diseases looked and had a hazard ratio of 1.24 (which I assume means a 24% increase from controls). They dismiss it as "reassuring" that it provided only a limited association. It was done on a base population of 20,000, but they were 84% male - so they probably had quite a small number of people with MS in the group. Personally, I would have preferred to see a hazard ratio much closer to 1.0.