Johns Hopkins Medicine: Researchers Explore Origins of Lupus, Find Reason for Condition's Prevalence Among Women
November 14, 2023
November 14, 2023
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 14 (TNSres) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release:
For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Some of the factors that cause the disease's high prevalence in women have eluded discovery, but in a new study investigating the immune system processes in lupus and the X chromosome, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have uncovered answers ab . . .
For years, researchers and clinicians have known that lupus, an autoimmune condition, occurs in women at a rate nine times higher than in men. Some of the factors that cause the disease's high prevalence in women have eluded discovery, but in a new study investigating the immune system processes in lupus and the X chromosome, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have uncovered answers ab . . .