TY - JOUR T1 - Multiple sclerosis among United Kingdom-born children of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, Africa and the West Indies. JF - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry JO - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry SP - 906 LP - 911 DO - 10.1136/jnnp.53.10.906 VL - 53 IS - 10 AU - M Elian AU - S Nightingale AU - G Dean Y1 - 1990/10/01 UR - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/53/10/906.abstract N2 - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is very uncommon among ethnic Asians in the Indian subcontinent, among Asians and Africans resident in the New Commonwealth countries of Africa and in the West Indies. It is also very uncommon among those who have migrated to England from those countries. In contrast, the children born in the United Kingdom of Asian, African and West Indian immigrants have, in the age groups available for study, a high prevalence of MS of a similar order to that occurring in the general population of England. ER -