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ONDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) — Only about 5 percent of people with multiple sclerosis are diagnosed when they’re children, but like adults with MS, the disease can affect cognitive function, causing memory and attention problems, and possibly low IQ scores.
And, the younger a child is at the time of diagnosis, the more likely he or she is to have a low IQ, according to new research published in the May 13 issue of the journal Neurology.
“In childhood cases, the impact of the disease on cognitive functioning may be more dramatic than that observed in adults,” said study author Dr. Maria Pia Amato, an associate professor of neurology at the University of Florence, in Italy.
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