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Abstract
Evidence for the influence of sex hormones--androgens, oestrogens and progestogens--on autoimmune disease is reviewed. Androgens and, perhaps, progestogens may protect from autoimmune disease; oestrogens seem to protect from rheumatoid arthritis but to be deleterious in systemic lupus erythematosus.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID： 2684320 DOI： 10.1093/rheumatology/xxviii.suppl_1.59
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Rheumatol ISSN： 0263-7103