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Male vs. Female disease

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hmtoggle_plus1Majority of patients are women:
Fox-Fordyce disease (90%) (esp. from puberty to menopause)
peri-oral dermatitis
partial lipodystrophy (80%)
lichen simplex et atrophicus (esp. before puberty or after menopause)
Sweets syndrome (80% in idiopathic Sweets)
X-linked dominant (IP, CHILD, Goltz)
primary biliary cirrhosis (90%)
angioma serpiginosum (90% of cases occur in girls under 16)
hidradenoma papilliferum
Gardner-Diamond syndrome
necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (men get diabetic dermopathy)
Sjogrens syndrome (>90% women ref. Andrews)
Riehls melanosis ?????
Dercums disease?????

 

 

hmtoggle_plus1Majority of patients are men:
X-linked recessive disorders
presumably females are less likely to be affected by hemochromotosis given natural iron loss with menstruation
KS
Bazex (paraneoplastic acrokeratosis)
Grovers disease (??)
actinic reticuloid (only one case reported in a woman)
Reiters disease - males 20:1
Hypereosinophilic syndrome (>90% of reported cases are men;  ref Andrews)

 
 

 

(Dr. Halpern says (???) middle aged women don't get Schambergs benign pigmented purpura, therefore in women it is cryoglobulinemia until proven otherwise)