Who Gets Sjögren's Syndrome?
It is probably hard to know these facts but it is estimated that 1 to 4 million people have the disease Sjogren's Syndrome in the USA alone and 90 percent of those are women.
It can occur at any age, but it usually is diagnosed after age 40 in people people of all races and ethnic backgrounds. It's rare in children, but it can occur.
Sjögren's syndrome was named after the Swedish ophthalmologist Henrik Sjogren.
He was born in 1899 in Koping. "He became a doctor in 1927 and served in various hospitals in Stockholm. 1933 Henrik Sjögren defended his thesis, written in German: "Zur Kenntnis der keratoconjunctivitis sicca. " From 1936 until his retirement in 1967 worked Henrik Sjögren, who head for the eye department of Engineering, then he moved to Lund.
Henrik Sjögren was honorary professor at Gothenburg University 196 1st In May 1986 he was honorary chairman at the first International Seminar in Copenhagen, Denmark. Henrik Sjögren died in Lund on 17 July 1986" This info translated from the Swedish site