{"id":1080,"date":"2025-12-23T13:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/exposure-to-pfas-and-pcb-mixtures-linked-to-higher-ms-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T13:00:20","slug":"exposure-to-pfas-and-pcb-mixtures-linked-to-higher-ms-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/exposure-to-pfas-and-pcb-mixtures-linked-to-higher-ms-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to PFAS and PCB mixtures linked to higher MS risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/23\/exposure-pfas-pcb-mixtures-linked-higher-ms-risk\/\" title=\"Exposure to PFAS and PCB mixtures linked to higher MS risk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Dice-risk-800x400.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A risk illustration shows a pair of dice being thrown.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"152769\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People exposed to higher levels of certain manufactured compounds that persist in the environment are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study reports. A higher MS risk was associated with elevated levels of PFAS, also known as &#8220;forever chemicals,&#8221; and specific metabolites of PCBs, which have been banned in many [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/23\/exposure-pfas-pcb-mixtures-linked-higher-ms-risk\/\">Exposure to PFAS and PCB mixtures linked to higher MS risk<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/23\/exposure-pfas-pcb-mixtures-linked-higher-ms-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People exposed to higher levels of certain manufactured compounds that persist in the environment are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), a new study reports. A higher MS risk was associated with elevated levels of PFAS, also known as &#8220;forever chemicals,&#8221; and specific metabolites of PCBs, which have been banned in many&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}