id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-300838-43spq01m Zhang, G.-X. Social and professional consequences of COVID-19 lockdown in patients with multiple sclerosis from 2 very different populations 2020-10-29 .txt text/plain 2703 195 58 title: Social and professional consequences of COVID-19 lockdown in patients with multiple sclerosis from 2 very different populations Method Questionnaires were applied to a group of MS patients who have been reviewed in the MS unit of the Vithas hospital (DINAC Foundation) in Seville, and MS patients attended in various provinces of China during the month of April 2020, with the aim of analyzing the differences and similarities of the socio-labor effect between both populations. Although the consequences of COVID-19 were initially thought to be more severe, the results from our questionnaire, both in Spain and in China, suggest that the disease has had no significant impact on MS and that these patients present a similar risk to that of individuals without MS. In conclusion, China and Spain present more similarities than differences in terms of the social and employment consequences of lockdown on patients with MS. ./cache/cord-300838-43spq01m.txt ./txt/cord-300838-43spq01m.txt