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Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’ | Women's health | The Guardian (opens in a new tab)

theguardian.com · 2026-10-13

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Claim 1 of 6Not checkedWomen with autoimmune conditions are up to 74% more likely than men to be told their symptoms are psychological or psychosomatic, and face much longer waits for diagnosis and treatment, a study suggests.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 6Not checkedResearch by the University of Cambridge and University of East Anglia suggests women are more likely to have autoimmune symptoms wrongly attributed to psychiatric causes, more likely to have symptoms misdiagnosed as psychosomatic, and more likely to experience delays in getting a diagnosis.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 6Not checkedThe study, published in the Lancet eClinicalMedicine journal, included more than 6,600 people with autoimmune conditions, most of them female and from the UK.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 6Not checkedResearchers found 43% of women reported being told their condition was down to a psychiatric cause compared with 33% of men, and 34% of women reported psychosomatic misdiagnosis compared with 22% of men.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 6Not checkedAfter accounting for factors including age, disease group, continent and household finances, researchers said women were 46% more likely to report a psychiatric misdiagnosis and 74% more likely to report a psychosomatic misdiagnosis than men.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 6 of 6Not checkedAmong men, the most frequently reported time to diagnosis was less than three months, while among women it was one to two years.View evidenceHide evidence

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