Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine.
Franck Mauvais-Jarvis,Noel Bairey Merz,Peter J. Barnes,Roberta Diaz Brinton,Juan Jesus Carrero,Dawn L. DeMeo,Geert J. De Vries,C. Neill Epperson,Ramaswamy Govindan,Sabra L. Klein,Amedeo Lonardo,Pauline M. Maki,Louise D. McCullough,Vera Regitz-Zagrosek,Vera Regitz-Zagrosek,Judith G. Regensteiner,Joshua B. Rubin,Kathryn Sandberg,Ayako Suzuki,Ayako Suzuki +19 more
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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.About:
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.read more
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Improving Data-Driven Methods to Identify and Categorize Transgender Individuals by Gender in Insurance Claims Data.
Jaclyn Mw Hughto,Landon Hughes,Kim Yee,Jae M. Downing,Jacqueline Ellison,Ash B. Alpert,Guneet K. Jasuja,Theresa I. Shireman +7 more
TL;DR: This work has identified the largest U.S-based sample of transgender individuals and inferred the gender of >75% of the sample by combining complex administrative claims-based algorithms, and extended prior research documenting key health disparities by gender category.
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Women's experiences of accessing individualized disability supports: gender inequality and Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme.
TL;DR: This article explored possible gendered barriers to applying for and receiving adequate disability support through the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and suggested directions for future research, and reported on semi-structured interviews with 30 women with disability and explore their experiences with the NDIS.
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Awareness of sex and gender dimensions among physicians: the European federation of internal medicine assessment of gender differences in Europe (EFIM-IMAGINE) survey
Ewelina Biskup,Alberto M. Marra,Imma Ambrosino,Elena Barbagelata,Stefania Basili,Jacqueline de Graaf,Asunción María Gonzálvez-Gasch,Risto Kaaja,Eleni Karlafti,Dor Lotan,Alexandra Kautzky-Willer,Maria Perticone,Cecilia Politi,Karin Schenck-Gustafsson,Andreia Vilas-Boas,Jeanine E. Roeters van Lennep,Emma A. Gans,Vera Regitz-Zagrosek,Louise Pilote,M. Proietti,Valeria Raparelli,Nicola Runòlfur Valentin Xavier Daniel Rijk Montano Pàllson Korokin Corbella Sereni Gans,Nicola Montano,Runòlfur Pàllson,Valentin Korokin,Xavier Corbella,Daniel Sereni,Rijk O. B. Gans +27 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the awareness in approaching clinical and research questions on the impact of sex and gender on health among European internists and find that more than 80% of respondents acknowledged the low participation of female individuals in trials and more than 60% the lack of sex-specific clinical guidelines.
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The Psychosocial Effects of Frailty on Women.
Louisa Whitesides,Joanne Lynn +1 more
TL;DR: Men are more likely to develop psychosocial elements associated with frailty because of their lifetime stressors, poverty, and loneliness at the end of life as mentioned in this paper, and women are also more prone to develop mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, lack of social support and loneliness.
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A Large Retrospective Study of Epidemiological Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients in the North of Iran: Association between SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Ct Values with Demographic Data
Farzin Sadeghi,Abazar Pournajaf,Mehrdad Halaji,Mohammad Chehrazi,Fatemeh Hejazi Amiri,Saghar Saber Amoli,Ali hasanzadeh,Mostafa Javanian,Masoumeh Bayani,Mahmoud Sadeghi Haddad Zavareh,Mehran Shokri,Arefeh Babazadeh,Mohsen Mohammadi,Hamed Mehdinezhad,Mahmoud Monadi,Parviz Amri Maleh,Hamid Reza Nouri,Abdolreza Daraei,Mahdie Yousefnia Pasha,Mehdi Tourani,Seyed Raheleh Ahmadian,Nadia Esmailzadeh,Seyyedeh Maedeh Mirtabar,S. Asadi,Ebrahim Nasiraie,Nafiseh Ezami,Shahrbano Gorjinejad,Kobra Fallhpour,Fatemeh Fakhraie,Yousef Beheshti,Mahnaz Baghershiroodi,Faezeh Rasti,Maryam Salehi,Atiyeh Aleahmad,Rahman Babapour,R Malekzadeh,Rahmat Habib Zade Kashi,Yousef Yahyapour +37 more
TL;DR: Elderly patients, lower Ct, patients having at least one comorbidity, and male cases were significantly associated with increased risk for COVID-19-related mortality, and mortality was significantly higher in patients with diabetes, kidney disease, and respiratory disease.
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