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From the book
The First Year--Multiple Sclerosis
An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed
by Margaret Blackstone

• There are about 400,000 people in the United States with Multiple Sclerosis
  
• About 2.5 million people in the world have Multpile Sclerosis
  
• Each week, more than 200 people throughout the world are newly diagnosed. Of all those who have been diagnosed:
  • 75% will remain ambulatory throughout their lifetime and will never need a wheelchair
    
  • 40% will not experience symptoms that are debilitating enough to limit their normal activity
    
  • 20% will experience a benign course of the disease, one that does little or nothing to disrupt their lives
    
• The life expectancy of MS patients has increased by more than ten years since the 1950s