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Historically, women have received far fewer rheumatology awards than men, a trend that is changing — albeit slowly.According to recent findings published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 83.29% of awardees honored by the six major international award-granting rheumatology bodies between 1972 and 2023 were men, while only 16.7% were women.
EULAR 2023 served up a bevy of studies on the protection and safety of COVID vaccines for patients and pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as on the influence of underlying diseases and drugs.
Adverse events were significantly more frequently reported by pregnant patients when compared with non-pregnant patients. However, no differences were observed when comparing pregnant patients with autoimmune disease and healthy controls.
Studies on the long-term consequences of COVID-19 (long-COVID) in patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (iRD) are scarce.