Autoimmune rheumatic diseases can affect patients of all ages, from infancy to childhood to

adulthood to old age.

They are not restricted at all to a particular

age group.

Certain diseases are common in certain age

groups though.

Ankylosing spondylitis more commonly starts in teenage years and early adulthood while polymyalgia rheumatica almost invariably starts after the age of fifty.

Autoimmune rheumatic diseases affect males and females.

They are not at all restricted to a particular

sex.

Certain diseases are more common in a particular sex though.

Systemic lupus is much more common in females.

Reactive arthritis is much more common in

males.

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