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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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Improving Data-Driven Methods to Identify and Categorize Transgender Individuals by Gender in Insurance Claims Data.

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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The Psychosocial Effects of Frailty on Women.

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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TL;DR: The American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival.
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Effect of potentially modifiable risk factors associated with myocardial infarction in 52 countries (the INTERHEART study): case-control study

TL;DR: Abnormal lipids, smoking, hypertension, diabetes, abdominal obesity, psychosocial factors, consumption of fruits, vegetables, and alcohol, and regular physical activity account for most of the risk of myocardial infarction worldwide in both sexes and at all ages in all regions.
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