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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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Sex differences in longitudinal trajectories of cognitive aging in Zaragoza, Spain

TL;DR: In this paper , the longitudinal trajectories of cognitive aging in a sample of cognitively healthy subjects of 55 years or older were documented, and differences between men and women were hypothesized: 1) in the cognitive loss through aging, 2) in distinct trajectories identified; and 3) in predictors associated with the identified trajectories.
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A machine-learning based bio-psycho-social model for the prediction of non-obstructive and obstructive coronary artery disease.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors developed a machine-learning model for the supervised prediction of obstructive versus non-obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), and the interplay between clinical, functional, biological and psycho-social features is still far to be fully elucidated.
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Sex Differences in GERD

TL;DR: This article found that premenopausal females appear to be protected from esophageal mucosal damage, as they demonstrate lower rates of erosive reflux disease, Barrett's esophagus, and adenocarcinoma.
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Fundamental neurochemistry review: Old brain stories ‐ Influence of age and sex on the neurodegeneration‐associated lipid changes

TL;DR: In this article, the presence of sex differences in the brain lipid changes that occur along aging, and in the two most common age-related neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases).
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