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Nonendocrine mechanisms of sex bias in rheumatic diseases.
Nature reviews. Rheumatology - 1 Nov 2019
Lambert Nathalie C
Abstract excerpt
Rheumatic diseases affect a wide range of individuals of all ages, but the most common diseases occur more frequently in women than in men, at ratios of up to ten women to one man. Despite a growing number of studies on sex bias in rheumatic diseases, sex-specific health care is limited and sex specificity is not systematically integrated into treatment regimens. Women and men differ in three major biological...
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