Pregnancy may have beneficial health effects for women with relapsing-remitting MS in the form of less long-term disability.
Participants are sought for our research project, in which we are seeking to identify the biological mechanisms that underpin this benefit by following Australian women with and without MS over a 3-5 year period. In these women, we will track changes that occur to the immune system before, during, and after pregnancy, and compare these changes against the immune activity in women of the same age who do not have children.