Table 2.

Lifetime Risk of Developing Various Adult-Onset Inflammatory Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases according to Sex

	Lifetime risk (95% CI)
Disease	Women	Men
RA	3.64 (3.37, 3.90)	1.68 (1.41, 1.94)
RF+ RA	2.39 (2.18, 2.60)	1.13 (0.91, 1.33)
SLE	0.91 (0.75, 1.06)	0.21 (0.06, 0.42)
PsA	0.46 (0.33, 0.59)	0.62 (0.51, 0.72)
PMR	2.43 (2.15, 2.72)	1.66 (1.32, 2.00)
GCA	1.04 (0.90, 1.16)	0.51 (0.27, 0.64)
AS	0.08 (0.00, 0.19)	0.63 (0.53, 0.74)
Primary SS	0.75 (0.67, 0.83)	0.04 (0.00, 0.10)
Primary inflammatory autoimmune rheumatic disease*	8.42 (7.98, 8.83)	5.13 (4.64, 5.64)

RA = rheumatoid arthritis; RF+ = rheumatoid factor positive; SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus; PsA = psoriatic arthritis; PMR = polymyalgia rheumatica; GCA = giant cell arteritis; AS = ankylosing spondylitis; SS = Sjögrens syndrome; CI = confidence interval

^*Primary inflammatory autoimmune rheumatic disease is defined as the first of any of these rheumatic diseases