Thus, in IBD, both men and women had similar disease severity as measured by the HBI at the start of biologic therapy, but there was a numerical trend suggesting that female patients experience more symptoms.
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Gender and the treatment of immune-mediated chronic inflammatory diseases: rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis: an observational study.
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Male and female patients who were started on biologic treatment had similar values on the HBI, but on three out of four questions of the SHS women had numerically higher scores, although these differences did not reach statistical significance.