Female predominant diseases

Many immunological and neurological diseases disproportionately affect women.

Epidemiology
Roughly 80% of patients with autoimmune disease are women. Over the last decades, the ratio of women to men with MS has increased markedly, representing a true increase in MS among women but not men.

Social impact
Research funding for these diseases, treatment options, stigma.

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 * Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery