O'Malley F, Dean G, Elian M
St James's Hospital, Dublin.
J Epidemiol Community Health. 1987 Mar;41(1):14-7. doi: 10.1136/jech.41.1.14.
This study assesses the outcome of a random sample of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and motor neurone disease (MND) selected from a previous study carried out between the years 1960 and 1972. Of the MND patients who are now dead, 20% of the women and 27% of the men lived longer than five years after hospitalised diagnosis, and two of these patients lived up to 19 years after diagnosis in hospital. Also, 10.7% of the random sample of MND patients were still alive in June 1985. Of the MS deaths 26.4% and of the MND deaths 20.4% did not have these respective conditions recorded on the death certificates.
本研究评估了从1960年至1972年进行的一项先前研究中随机抽取的多发性硬化症（MS）和运动神经元病（MND）患者的结局。在现已去世的MND患者中，20%的女性和27%的男性在住院诊断后存活超过了五年，其中两名患者在住院诊断后存活了19年。此外，在1985年6月，随机抽取的MND患者样本中有10.7%仍然存活。在MS死亡患者中，26.4%以及在MND死亡患者中，20.4%在死亡证明上未记录这些相应病症。
