The overall cardiovascular disease-related death rate in individuals with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases declined from 3.9 to 2.1 per 100,000 in women and from 1.7 to 1.2 per 100,000 in men ...

Since most autoimmune diseases are diagnosed after puberty, more in girls than in boys, sex hormones were thought to be the primary driver of this difference. For example, four in five patients ...

Bertagnolli, Monica. “Study Offers New Clues to Why Most People with Autoimmune Diseases Are Women.” NIH Directors Blog, National Institutes of Health, 15 Feb. 2024. Dolgin, Elie.

The overall cardiovascular disease-related death rate in individuals with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases declined from 3.9 to 2.1 per 100,000 in women and from 1.7 to 1.2 per 100,000 in men ...