Women typically have a higher rate of connective tissue disease. (sciencedaily.com)
A study based on medical records from more than a quarter million adult patients found that African - American patients with connective tissue diseases such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis were twice as likely as white patients to suffer from narrowed or atherosclerotic blood vessels, which increase the risk of a heart attack, stroke or death. (uchospitals.edu)
We studied 243 females, 122 of whom had previously carried a male fetus (50 healthy controls, 23 patients with scleroderma, and 49 with other connective tissue diseases). (science.institut-curie.org)