Quantitative effect of sex on disease activity and disability accumulation in multiple sclerosis.
Melinda MagyariNils Iørgen Koch-HenriksenPublished in: Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry (2022)
Women have more inflammatory disease activity in terms of relapses than men up to the age of menopause indicating that sex hormones may play a role. Men are more subject to the neurodegenerative component of MS than women, particularly after the age of 45 years.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- multiple sclerosis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- ankylosing spondylitis
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- pregnancy outcomes
- middle aged
- white matter
- cervical cancer screening
- mass spectrometry
- breast cancer risk
- high resolution
- ms ms
- oxidative stress
- postmenopausal women
- type diabetes
- pregnant women
- insulin resistance
- metabolic syndrome