Sex differences in clinical presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus

Abstract Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) predominantly affects women, but previous studies suggest that men with SLE present a more severe disease phenotype. In this study, we investigated a large and well-characterized patient group with the aim of identifying sex differences in diseas...

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Main Authors: Jorge I. Ramírez Sepúlveda, Karin Bolin, Johannes Mofors, Dag Leonard, Elisabet Svenungsson, Andreas Jönsen, Christine Bengtsson, the DISSECT consortium, Gunnel Nordmark, Solbritt Rantapää Dahlqvist, Anders A. Bengtsson, Lars Rönnblom, Christopher Sjöwall, Iva Gunnarsson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Biology of Sex Differences
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13293-019-0274-2