Is the course of steroid-treated polymyalgia rheumatica more severe in women?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1069, Issue , 2006, Pages 315-321

  Cimmino, Marco A ^a   Parodi, Massimiliano ^a   Caporali, Roberto ^b   Montecucco, Carlomalirizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid; Gender; Polymyalgia rheumatica; Sex; Treatment

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 33745617867     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1351.030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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