Autoimmune diseases are a range of diseases in which the immune response to self-
antigens results in damage or dysfunction of tissues. Autoimmune diseases can be systemic
or can affect specific organs or body systems. For most autoimmune diseases there is a
clear sex difference in prevalence, whereby females are generally more frequently affected
than males. In this review, we consider gender differences in systemic and organ-specific
autoimmune diseases, and we summarize human data that outlines the prevalence of …