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In a new Johns Hopkins Medicine study, researchers found that male and female patients with early Lyme disease present with different signs of the disease in the symptoms they report, their physical exams and their laboratory test results.
The study was published on February 7 in Clinical and Experimental Medicine.
Researchers found that males were more likely to have a positive test and to have more obvious, severe disease indicators, including other laboratory abnormalities, at diagnosis, yet there were no differences in how long males and females had been sick. They studied data from 243 adults (118 females and 125 males) with early Lyme disease before and after treatment. The age range was 20–84.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and…