{"id":2046,"date":"2026-05-19T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/multiple-lesions-on-spinal-cord-signal-a-2-times-higher-risk-of-ms-per-study\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:00:16","slug":"multiple-lesions-on-spinal-cord-signal-a-2-times-higher-risk-of-ms-per-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/multiple-lesions-on-spinal-cord-signal-a-2-times-higher-risk-of-ms-per-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple lesions on spinal cord signal a 2 times higher risk of MS, per study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/05\/19\/multiple-lesions-spinal-cord-signal-2-times-higher-risk-ms-study\/\" title=\"Multiple lesions on spinal cord signal a 2 times higher risk of MS, per study\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/iStock-2187469710-800x533.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"A human hand uses a small pointer to indicate an area highlighted in red on a series of imaging scans.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"161157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The presence of multiple asymptomatic spinal cord lesions \u2014 areas of damage, as captured by imaging scans \u2014 is associated with about a twofold higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) for people with a first episode of myelitis, or inflammation of the spinal cord, a new study suggests. The researchers also found that the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2026\/05\/19\/multiple-lesions-spinal-cord-signal-2-times-higher-risk-ms-study\/\">Multiple lesions on spinal cord signal a 2 times higher risk of MS, per study<\/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\/05\/19\/multiple-lesions-spinal-cord-signal-2-times-higher-risk-ms-study\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presence of multiple asymptomatic spinal cord lesions \u2014 areas of damage, as captured by imaging scans \u2014 is associated with about a twofold higher risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) for people with a first episode of myelitis, or inflammation of the spinal cord,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2047,"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-2046","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\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}