Women are More Susceptible than Men to Autoimmune Diseases – What is the Reason for this Gender Bias?
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Kaushik Bharati, PhDIan Mackay and Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet in the early sixties, first identified the phenomenon of autoimmunity, which occurs as a result of the disruption of immune tolerance of self-antigens, resulting in the immune system attacking the “self” tissues of the body. The prevalence of autoimmune diseases in India is one of the highest in the world (33.3 million), which is second only to China, which has a prevalence of 40.6 million. In India, although autoimmune diseases like...
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