Woman alone trying to control angerThe amount by which women with autoimmune diseases (which include rheumatoid arthritis, Chron’s disease, type one diabetes, and multiple sclerosis) outnumber men with the conditions is staggering. Almost 80% of sufferers are female, Scientific American says. Scientists think this might be the case for a few reasons. Stanford scientists say that two X chromosomes lead to groups of autoantibodies that XY chromosomes don’t make. But because we’ve used men’s cells as the baseline for so long, “All of a female patient’s anti-Xist-complex antibodies – a huge source of women’s autoimmune susceptibility – go unseen,” they say.Some experts, including those all over my