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Correction: Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Milad Azami,
  • Mohammad Hossein YektaKooshali,
  • Masoumeh Shohani,
  • Ali Khorshidi,
  • Leily Mahmudi

In the Results subsection of the Abstract, there are errors in the third and fourth sentence of the paragraph. The correct sentences are: The prevalence of MS in men and women was estimated to be 16.5/ 100,000 (95% CI: 13.3–20.5) and 44.8/ 100,000 (95% CI: 36.2–55.4), respectively. The incidence of MS in men was estimated to be 1.2/ 100,000 (95% CI: 1.0–1.4) and the incidence of MS in women was 48.2/ 100,000 (95% CI: 39.3–59.1).

In the 3.1. Study characteristics and methodological quality subsection of the Results, there is an error in the third sentence of the paragraph. The correct sentence is: Finally, 39 articles (included 92 studies for prevalence and 34 studies for incidence) entered the meta-analysis process after qualitative assessment.

In the 3.4. Prevalence of MS based on gender subsection of the Results, there is an error in the first sentence of the paragraph. The correct sentence is: The prevalence of MS in men and women was estimated to be 16.5/ 100,000 (95% CI: 13.3–20.5) and 44.8/ 100,000 (95% CI: 36.2–55.4), respectively (Fig 4).

In the 3.7. Incidence of MS based on gender subsection of the Results, there is an error in the first sentence of the paragraph. The correct sentence is: The incidence of MS in men was estimated to be 1.2/ 100,000 (95% CI: 1.0–1.4) and the incidence of MS in women was 48.2/ 100,000 (95% CI: 39.3–59.1) (Fig 6).

There is an error in Table 2. Please see the correct Table 2 here.

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Table 2. MS prevalence based on region, gender, provinces, year of study and design.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219466.t001

Reference

  1. 1. Azami M, YektaKooshali MH, Shohani M, Khorshidi A, Mahmudi L (2019) Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 14(4): e0214738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214738 pmid:30964886

Citation: Azami M, YektaKooshali MH, Shohani M, Khorshidi A, Mahmudi L (2019) Correction: Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219466. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219466

Published: July 9, 2019

Copyright: © 2019 Azami et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.