Autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s ‘more likely to be dismissed if you’re a woman’

Autoimmune conditions like Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease now affect one in ten Brits but study suggests GPs are missing them as women wait years for a diagnosisA third of women were wrongly told their symptoms were psychosomatic (stock)(Image: Getty Images)Autoimmune conditions that cause symptoms such as tiredness, low mood and brain fog are being dismissed as psychological, a study shows.