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When Shiv Sharma was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis he was the only South Asian he knew with the condition.

“I got a bit of a shock at the time,” he said.

“I honestly thought I was a bit of a freak. It took me a good few months to come to terms with it.”

Now, seven years later, about 12% of the MS patients treated at London’s Charing Cross Hospital are of a South Asian background.

Dr Omar Malik, a consultant neurologist at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, said he now wanted to know why UK-born South Asians, such as Shiv, seem to be more susceptible than those who migrated to this country as adults.

“South Asian MS is now becoming a common problem in the UK,” he said.

read the rest via BBC NEWS | Health | ‘I thought I was alone with my MS’.

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