Upon the news of djbailey's death (of alsforums.com) In at least two ways I continue to see gender bias in my review of ALS cases . . . In cases were patients are alive nearly nine years after initiating pacing I have found about a dozen cases, only two are female . . . unclear how real those two cases are . . . ; in this list of studies, only five studies found bias against females but no study has found bias against males:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...29#post1203229

Although females are much less likely to incur ALS, when they have, they may be less successful in fight off the disease. djbailey apparently had a more aggressive form of the disease, as they became unable to move their eyes only three years in from symptom onset of limb onset ALS. Ocular immobolization is rare in ALS, occuring late in the disorder's process.

Further, of the eight apparently least successful cases wherein full data is available, five are female and three are male . . .