Analysis of the Structure of the Primary Disability Due to Multiple Sclerosis in the City of Ufa Over 2010-2016

Abstract

There was performed the analysis of the primary disability of multiple sclerosis in a large industrial city of Ufa during the period of 2010-2016. There was noted the decline in levels of the disability from 0.23 in 2010 to 0,14 per 10,000 in 2016, the prevalence in the structure of disability in young and middle-aged, persons with the third disability group. During the first 5 years from the onset of the disease 36,8% of patients have signs of the permanent disability, after 10 years 62% of cases show signs of the permanent disability. The majority of the disability have secondary progressive and remission-progressive type of the disease.