“It’s All in Your Head”: Cambridge Study Exposes Gender Gap in Autoimmune Disease Diagnosis
Women with autoimmune diseases are up to 74% more likely than men to report having their symptoms wrongly dismissed as psychological or psychosomatic, according to a major study involving 6,607 patients. Researchers from Cambridge and the University of East Anglia also found that women often face substantially longer delays before receiving a diagnosis and appropriate treatment, raising serious questions about gender inequalities in healthcare.