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© 1989 British Society for Rheumatology

Sex Hormones and Autoimmune Disease

A. H. W. M. Schuurs and H. A. M. Verheul

Organon SDG P. O. Box 20, 5340 BH Oss, The Netherlands

Correspondence to Dr. Schuurs


  Abstract

Evidence for the influence of sex hormones—androgens, oestrogens and progestogens—on autoimmune disease is reviewed. Androgens and, perhaps, progestogens may protect from autoimmune disease; oestrogens seem to protect from rheumatoid arthritis but to be deleterious in systemic lupus erythematosus.


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