{"id":1137,"date":"2026-01-06T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/mothers-with-ms-symptoms-may-face-longer-waits-for-a-diagnosis-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:00:05","slug":"mothers-with-ms-symptoms-may-face-longer-waits-for-a-diagnosis-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/mothers-with-ms-symptoms-may-face-longer-waits-for-a-diagnosis-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers with MS symptoms may face longer waits for a diagnosis, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/01\/06\/mothers-ms-symptoms-face-longer-diagnosis-delays-study\/\" title=\"Mothers with MS symptoms may face longer waits for a diagnosis, study finds\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/nurse-and-patient-1-800x400.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A doctor talks to a patient seated on an examination table.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"150851\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have children experience significantly longer waits before receiving a diagnosis than women without children, according to a new U.S. study. On average, each child was associated with an additional 1.28-year delay in diagnosis. The delay was even longer among women whose symptoms began during their reproductive years and among [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/01\/06\/mothers-ms-symptoms-face-longer-diagnosis-delays-study\/\">Mothers with MS symptoms may face longer waits for a diagnosis, study finds<\/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\/2026\/01\/06\/mothers-ms-symptoms-face-longer-diagnosis-delays-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have children experience significantly longer waits before receiving a diagnosis than women without children, according to a new U.S. study. On average, each child was associated with an additional 1.28-year delay in diagnosis. The delay was even longer among women whose symptoms began during their reproductive years and among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1138,"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-1137","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\/1137","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=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}