Teenage obesity linked to increased risk of MS

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sun, 11/08/2009 - 23:00

(American Academy of Neurology) Teenage women who are obese may be more than twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis as adults compared to female teens who are not obese, according to a study published in the Nov. 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

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