Neurologist-Neuroimmunologist, Assistant Professor of Neurology
Medical School of Athens National and Kapodistrian University (NKUOA), Athens, Greece
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a multifactorial disease of the Central Nervous System, with a neuroinflammatory and a neurodegenerative component, from its initiation and further on. Many factors have been described to play a role in the initiation and clinical course of the disease and in the response to medication. These factors include age at onset, gender, viral infections, Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA)-genotype, non-HLA genes, Vitamin D levels, Body-Mass-Index(BMI) and smoking…