In het kader van Vrouwendag #womensday !
Spondylitis Ankylosans wordt vaak nog als een ‘mannenziekte’ voorgesteld, ook door dokters.

Dit plaatje klopt echter niet ⬇️⬇️

QUOTE:
“It is evident that sex plays a very important role in AS. The symptomatic burden of AS tends to be higher in females than in males. Progression of spinal changes by X-ray, on the other hand, are more accelerated in males than females. Some inflammatory markers in the blood tend to be higher in males than females with AS. Although there is a male predominance of AS, in that subset of patients without X-ray damage in the sacroiliac joints (‘non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis’) there is a higher representation of females. Finally, in some studies there have been male/female differences in the response to biologic treatments.
“To better understand the biologic basis of these sex differences in AS, our research team has just published a study examining the immune profiles in male AS patients vs female AS patients.”

BRON: Sex Differences in Ankylosing Spondylitis – Spondylitis Association of America