Association of UV radiation with multiple sclerosis prevalence and sex ratio in France

Sarah-Michelle Orton 1 Lucien Wald 2 Cyrille B. Confavreux 3 S. Vukusic 3 J. P. Krohn 1 Sreeram V Ramagopalan 1 Blanca M Herrera 1 a Dessa Sadovnick 4 George Cornell Ebers 5, *
* Auteur correspondant
1 The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford]
2 CEP/Sophia
CEP - Centre Énergétique et Procédés
3 Neuro-oncologie et neuro-inflammation
4 Division of Neurology, University of British Columbia
5 University of Oxford [Oxford]
Abstract : Background: French farmers and their families constitute an informative population to study multiple sclerosis (MS) prevalence and related epidemiology. We carried out an ecological study to evaluate the association of MS prevalence and ultraviolet (UV) radiation, a candidate climatologic risk factor. Methods: Mean annual and winter (December–March) UVB irradiation values were systematically compared to MS prevalence rates in corresponding regions of France. UVB data were obtained from the solar radiation database (SoDa) service and prevalence rates from previously published data on 2,667 MS cases registered with the national farmer health insurance system, Mutualité Sociale Agricole (MSA). Pearson correlation was used to examine the relationship of annual and winter UVB values with MS prevalence. Male and female prevalence were also analyzed separately. Linear regression was used to test for interaction of annual and winter UVB with sex in predicting MS prevalence. Results: There was a strong association between MS prevalence and annual mean UVB irradiation (r = −0.80, p < 0.001) and average winter UVB (r = −0.87, p < 0.001). Both female (r = −0.76, p < 0.001) and male (r = −0.46, p = 0.032) prevalence rates were correlated with annual UVB. Regression modeling showed that the effect of UVB on prevalence rates differed by sex; the interaction effect was significant for both annual UVB (p = 0.003) and winter UVB (p = 0.002). Conclusions: The findings suggest that regional UVB radiation is predictive of corresponding MS prevalence rates and supports the hypothesis that sunlight exposure influences MS risk. The evidence also supports a potential role for gender-specific effects of UVB exposure.
Mots-clés : multiple sclerosis UV radiation solar exposure sex ratio France SoDa
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Sarah-Michelle Orton, Lucien Wald, Cyrille B. Confavreux, S. Vukusic, J. P. Krohn, et al.. Association of UV radiation with multiple sclerosis prevalence and sex ratio in France. Neurology, American Academy of Neurology, 2011, 76 (5), pp.425-431. ⟨10.1212/WNL.0b013e31820a0a9f⟩. ⟨hal-00567871⟩

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