Journal•ISSN: 1550-8579
Gender Medicine
Elsevier BV
About: Gender Medicine is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Estrogen. It has an ISSN identifier of 1550-8579. Over the lifetime, 456 publications have been published receiving 15136 citations.
Topics: Population, Estrogen, Risk factor, Health care, Diabetes mellitus
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TL;DR: Greater amounts of visceral and hepatic adipose tissue, in conjunction with the lack of a possible protective effect of estrogen, may be related to higher insulin resistance in men compared with women.
726 citations
TL;DR: Continuing research at the genetic and receptor levels may support the need to develop gender-specific drug therapies in animals and humans.
536 citations
TL;DR: Several hypotheses have been proposed for sex differences in longevity, including more active female immune functioning, the protective effect of estrogen, compensatory effects of the second X chromosome, reduction in the activity of growth hormone and the insulin-like growth factor 1 signaling cascade, and the influence of oxidative stress on aging and disease.
403 citations
TL;DR: Evidence suggests that females have an advantage over males, with a better outcome in the perinatal period, particularly after preterm birth, while male sex is an independent risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcome.
394 citations
TL;DR: Prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders might be more effective if the available knowledge about sex and gender specificity was implemented and treatment effect studies could be improved by greater consideration ofsex and gender throughout the research process.
303 citations