Challenges to conquer from the gender perspective in medicine: The case of spondyloarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Diagnostic delay is well-known in spondyloarthritis and studies have demonstrated a longer deferral in women. The aim of this study was to explore whether diagnostic delay of spondyloarthritis depends on clinical manifestations expressed by patients according to sex or whether it is related to a doctor's misdiagnosis bias.

Methods

A cross-sectional study of 96 men and 54 women with spondyloarthritis was performed at Alicante University General Hospital in Spain using a semistructured interview and clinical records. Comparative sex analysis were done via Student's T and Mann-Whitney U tests for parametric and nonparametric continuous variables, chi-square and Fisher's exact tests for unpaired categorical variables, and McNemar's test for paired ones.

Findings

SUBMITTER: Jovani V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185841 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature