Women and autoimmune diseases
POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME AND AUTOIMMUNITY
Women with blocked coronary arteries had angioplasty or bypass. All the participants were monitored for at least a year for ongoing chest pain, heart attack, or stroke. As expected, many symptomatic women with positive stress tests had negative angiograms. But many of these women also had abnormal results on vascular function tests. Their coronary arteries and smaller vessels feeding the heart ...
[DOC File]Susan Krieger, Author : Entry Page
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Thyroid disease has been considered one of the most common autoimmune diseases since its two major clinical diseases, hypothyroidism (often caused by Hashimoto’s disease) and hyperthyroidism (mainly by Grave’s disease) are caused by auto antibodies.1 Thyroid disease is mainly associated with decreased quality of life, Grave’s ophthalmopathy and dermopathy, osteoporosis, cardiovascular ...
[DOC File]The Problem of Autoimmune Disease
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AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES. Systemic lupus erythematosus. 1 in 2500, 9 female: 1 male. Numerous autoantibodies, especially. Anti-nuclear antibody. Anti-dsDNA. Anti-Smith. Anti-phospholipid . Anti-cardiolipin (false positive VDRL) Lupus anticoagulant is procoagulant in vivo. Heritable defects in the regulation of B-cell proliferation. Helper T cell hyperactivity. Organ systems affected: Kidney: five ...
[DOC File]AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
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This was confirmed by studies on women of reproductive age, which showed higher prevalence of systemic autoimmune diseases(16) as well as studies in hypogonadal men having relative excess of estrogens. For example in patients with Klinefelter syndrome an association with rheumatic and autoimmune diseases has been reported particularly with rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile idiopathic …
Women & Autoimmune Disease
Yet men, whose physical bodies are denser than women’s and who suffer from sclerotic conditions like heart disease and COPD more than women, nevertheless have rheumatic, autoimmune inflammations less often than women. I believe the reason for this apparent discrepancy is that a woman’s astral body (soul) is more sensitive and impressionable than a man’s. Steiner has said that life ...
[DOC File]Frank MacDonald RN, MN
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Gastrointestinal diseases are now one of the most common topics of discussion and are one of the most common reasons patients seek medical attention. The gut mucosal surfaces deal with the largest amount of antigens confronting the body and have a very specific anatomical configuration in order to fulfill the delicate task of distinguishing between pathogenic bacteria and toxins, and the ...
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Women, for example, more often have certain kinds of disabilities, such as autoimmune diseases, and given the same disability type, women often experience their disability in a different way than men. The readings emphasize a feminist approach and focus on women’s personal accounts as well as more general studies. The course is designed both for students with disabilities and for those who ...
[DOC File]New View of Heart Disease in Women
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Understanding and development of novel interventions for autoimmune disorders in women and understanding why women have more autoimmune diseases than men. Delineation of etiological factors associated with Polycystic ovary syndrome . Genetic predisposition profile in Indian women with PCOS . Epigenetic modifications in women with PCOS. Effect of environmental factors (exposure to …
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Autoimmune diseases, including diabetes type 1, systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune hypothyroidism, and autoimmune Addison's disease, are associated with a higher risk for early menopause. Autoimmunity, however, may also play a role in some cases of POF without the presence of specific autoimmune diseases. In such cases, antibodies specifically attack the cells that secrete …
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Fact: Two of the most common thyroid diseases, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and Graves's disease, are autoimmune diseases and may run in families. Fact: Hypothyroidism is 10 times more common in women than in men. Fact: One out of five women over the age of 75 has Hashimoto's thyroiditis, the most common cause of hypothyroidism. Fact: Thyroid dysfunction complicates 5%-9% of all …
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