[HTML][HTML] Gender differences in autoimmune disease

ST Ngo, FJ Steyn, PA McCombe - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2014 - Elsevier
Autoimmune diseases are a range of diseases in which the immune response to self-
antigens results in damage or dysfunction of tissues. Autoimmune diseases can be systemic …

Autoimmune disease in women: endocrine transition and risk across the lifespan

MK Desai, RD Brinton - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Women have a higher incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases than men, and
85% or more patients of multiple autoimmune diseases are female. Women undergo …

Impact of sex hormones on immune function and multiple sclerosis development

MC Ysrraelit, J Correale - Immunology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system
(CNS) affecting young people and leading to demyelination and neurodegeneration. The …

Multiple sclerosis: risk factors, prodromes, and potential causal pathways

SV Ramagopalan, R Dobson, UC Meier… - The Lancet …, 2010 - thelancet.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common, complex neurological disease. The precise aetiology of
MS is not yet known, although epidemiological data indicate that both genetic and …

The importance of studying sex differences in disease: The example of multiple sclerosis

LC Golden, R Voskuhl - Journal of neuroscience research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
To date, scientific research has often focused on one sex, with assumptions that study of the
other sex would yield similar results. However, many diseases affect males and females …

Environmental factors and their timing in adult-onset multiple sclerosis

AE Handel, G Giovannoni, GC Ebers… - Nature Reviews …, 2010 - nature.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common, complex neurological disease. Epidemiological data
implicate both genetic and environmental factors in the etiology of MS, with various factors …

Sex differences in autoimmune disorders of the central nervous system

SM Gold, A Willing, F Leypoldt, F Paul… - Seminars in …, 2019 - Springer
Stronger adaptive immune responses in females can be observed in different mammals,
resulting in better control of infections compared to males. However, this presumably …

Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis

SV Ramagopalan, AD Sadovnick - Neurologic clinics, 2011 - neurologic.theclinics.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common disease of the central nervous system that
causes permanent disability in young adults. 1 Based on strong circumstantial evidence, MS …

An atlas on risk factors for multiple sclerosis: a Mendelian randomization study

S Yuan, Y Xiong, SC Larsson - Journal of neurology, 2021 - Springer
Objectives We conducted a systematic review and wide-angled Mendelian randomization
(MR) study to examine the association between possible risk factors and multiple sclerosis …

Sex effects across the lifespan in women with multiple sclerosis

KM Krysko, JS Graves, R Dobson… - Therapeutic …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune inflammatory demyelinating central nervous
system disorder that is more common in women, with onset often during reproductive years …