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Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine.

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Clinicians and researchers are guided to consider sex and gender in their approach to diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases as a necessary and fundamental step towards precision medicine, which will benefit men's and women's health.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2020-08-22 and is currently open access. It has received 781 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sex characteristics & Disease.

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2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice

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Biological sex impacts COVID-19 outcomes.

TL;DR: This work seeks to raise awareness about the male-biased severe outcomes from COVID-19, highlighting the mechanistic differences including in the expression and activity of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as well as in antiviral immunity.
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Estradiol, Progesterone, Immunomodulation, and COVID-19 Outcomes.

TL;DR: This mini-review discusses the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory actions of high physiological concentrations of the steroids 17β-estradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) and discusses how the combination of E2 and P4 may improve the immune dysregulation that leads to the COVID-19 cytokine storm.
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