Men, Women & Medical Differences in Axial Spondyloarthropathy

“I think it would be helpful to stratify and pool the data that we already have for these drugs and look into the differences between men and women,” says Dr. van der Horst-Bruinsma. “I think we have to be careful not to say, ‘We did a multi-logistic regression analysis, and it doesn’t come out,’ because if the population of women is too low, you will not find significant difference. But if you have sufficient data on men and women, you might find differences.”

Ruth Jessen Hickman, MD, is a graduate of the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is a freelance medical and science writer living in Bloomington, Ind.

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