Soldiers who have been in the UK armed forces are 50% more likely to develop motor neurone disease than those who have never served, a new study has found.
The incurable neurodegenerative disease attacks nerves in the brain and spinal cord leading to progressive paralysis and affects about 5,000 people in the UK.
A number of studies in the US – where MND is known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease – linked the condition to military service in the Gulf. In the latest study, researchers from the University of Glasgow looked at Scottish veterans.
The team analysed 57,000 veterans who were born between 1945 and 1985 and who had a wide range of experience and length of service in the armed forces, using the data to examine rates of hospitalisation and death from MND.
The study found they had a 50% higher risk of developing the disease compared with people who had never served in the armed forces, but no link was established to any particular deployment and the risk did not worsen with longer service. One possible explanation for the increase may be a higher rate of smoking in the military.
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