Samantha O Kohn, Abeera Azam, Lauren E Hamilton, Stephanie R Harrison, Elizabeth R Graef, Kristen J Young, Helena Marzo-Ortega, Jean W Liew
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) was historically considered a disease of men, largely due to the recognition of a more severe, progressive phenotype, ankylosing spondylitis (AS; or radiographic axSpA, r-axSpA) aiding the clinical diagnosis [1,2]. Data demonstrating the near equal prevalence of axSpA in women only started to emerge in the last decades, highlighting intrinsic differences in disease phenotype, and clinical and imaging characteristics between sexes, which partly explain the issue of underdiagnosis in women...
September 2023: Best Practice & Research. Clinical Rheumatology