Many diseases affect both women and men but some diseases occur in women at a higher frequency such as gallstones, migraine headaches, and other plague women more often than men are irritable bowel syndrome and urinary tract infections including cystitis (bladder infection), and kidney infection (pyelonephritis) are significant health problems that especially affect women. Osteoporosis a condition in which bone density decreases is a major health concern for women and loose half of their skeletal mass by the age of 65. Multiple sclerosis, Sjogren’s syndrome and lupus in these diseases, the immune system attacks the body’s own tissue and rheumatoid arthritis the major sufferers being women.