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Senator Schumer Launches Multiple Sclerosis Investigation in CNY Senator Schumer Launches Multiple Sclerosis Investigation in CNY

By Jonah Karp

Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer was in Central New York today to discuss a new blue cross blue shield study.

The study identified Central New York as having the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the country… Jonah Karp is live in studio with more… Jonah?

Hey guys…The Blue Cross Blue Shield recently came out with a study that the Central New York/Syracuse area has the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the country.
Nearly 1 million people over the age of 18 live with m-s in the United States…But the number in Central New York is especially concerning.
The diagnosis rate of m-s in this region is about 45 per ten-thousand. That’s nearly double the national average…24 Per ten-thousand…And a third higher than the New York state average of 31 per ten-thousand.
There’s no cure to multiple sclerosis…And it’s not yet known why the rate in central New York is so high…
That’s why senator Chuck Schumer announced today that he’s getting to the bottom of it.

“and so today I’m launching a push for there to be complete cooperation and focus between the center for disease control and SUNY upstate’s great neurological research team to figure out what’s going on, what it means for central new york, but what it means also for figuring out a cure for ms. Right now there is no cure for multiple sclerosis.”

The study from Blue Cross Blue Shield also revealed that 75-percent of those diagnosed with m-s are women…
The average age of those diagnosed…47
guys?

SYRACUSE, NY–Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced today at SUNY Upstate Medical University that he will be launching an investigation into the high rate of Multiple Sclerosis in Central New York. This comes a few weeks after Blue Cross Blue Shield unveiled a study noting that Central New York residents are twice as likely to get MS as compared to the national average.

The rate in Central New York is a third higher than the rate of 31 per 10,000 people that live with MS in the state of New York. Of the metropolitan regions in the Blue Cross Blue Shield study, Syracuse had the highest case of MS reported.

The study also shows that roughly 75 percent of those diagnosed with the disease are women and the average age for those diagnosed is 47 years old. It also details that the region of the United States that contains the most cases of MS is the northeast.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield study does not explain why the rate in Central New York is particularly high. Senator Schumer has asked that the CDC cooperate and collaborate with experts at SUNY Upstate to collect and analyze data that could educate Central New Yorkers on the disease.

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