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I want to use HN to do a quick informal survey on this topic: please state # of your male friends with similar conditions, # female friends with similar conditions, country or state, and whether you live in an urban vs. rural area (yes I know that this is a crappy methodology and likely a very biased sample)

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Do you refer to what is spoken about in the article, or auto-immune disease as per se?

I have heard medical statistics stating that 9 out of 10 with auto-immune disease is female. Which to me would imply that something gender-specific, like genetics or the likes, is hugely responsible.

I get the feeling what you're getting at is that women are supposed to be weaker and get easily confused and it's all in their head though (apologies if that is in no way what you mean.)

But I can confirm that I am one of the lucky 1/10th of the overall population who have a diagnosed auto-immune disease being male.

I have Ulcerative Colitis which is an autoimmune disease and my doctor who is a famous IBD researcher has said that Chrons/Colitis affects women about 90% more often than men. In fact on my dads side there are 3 females with it (both 2x Chrons and 1x Colitis) and I'm the only male so far in the family tree.

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