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Sex Differences in Dementia

2022
BackgroundWomen in many cohorts have a higher risk for Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common form of dementia. Sex is a biological construct whereby differences in disease manifestation and prevalence are rooted in genetic differences between XX and XY combinations of chromosomes.
Eef, Hogervorst   +2 more
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Sex and Sex Differences

2013
Male and female fetuses differ not only chromosomally but also hormonally. In addition, the postnatal social environment differs for boys and girls, as well as for men and women. Genes, hormones, socialization, and cognitive development combine to produce different behavior between the average male and female, as well as individual differences in sex ...
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Differences of sex development

Nature Reviews Disease Primers
Differences of sex development (DSD) represent a group of congenital conditions that affect human sex development and maturation owing to discrepancies of chromosomal, gonadal and phenotypic sex. The Chicago consensus classifies DSD as sex chromosome DSD, 46,XY DSD and 46,XX DSD, with subclassifications according to gonadal determination into testes ...
Syed Faisal Ahmed   +10 more
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Sex differences in stroke

2020
Sex disparities within the field of stroke, including subarachnoid hemorrhages (SAHs), have been in focus during the last 2 decades. It is clear that stroke incidence is higher in men, and also that men have their first stroke earlier than women. On the other hand, women have more severe strokes, mainly because cardioembolic strokes are more common in ...
Peter, Appelros, Signild, Åsberg
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Sex differences in pain

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1997
Are there sex differences in pain? For experimentally delivered somatic stimuli, females have lower thresholds, greater ability to discriminate, higher pain ratings, and less tolerance of noxious stimuli than males. These differences, however, are small, exist only for certain forms of stimulation and are affected by many situational variables ...
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Asthma, the sex difference

Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2011
asthma is a common chronic disease with significant clinical impact worldwide. Sex-related disparities in asthma epidemiology and morbidity exist but debate continues regarding the mechanisms for these differences. There is a need to review the recent findings for asthma care providers and to highlight areas in need of additional research.recent data ...
Jessica A, Kynyk   +2 more
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Sex differences and IQ

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1996
Of all the controversial issues surrounding IQ tests, few have generated more heat and less light than the question whether different groups in our society differ in average IQ. Those who study, and find evidence of, such differences believe that they are addressing a legitimate scientific issue and one whose implications, however unpalatable they may ...
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Sex Differences on the HGSHS:A

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2004
Over a 28-year period, 724 men and 1148 women completed the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A. Overall, women scored higher than men. This effect was most prominent on 6 of the 12 items, most (though not all) challenge items (identified by a principal-components analysis). The overall effect size was quite small.
Jeffrey M, Rudski   +2 more
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Sex Differences in Revascularization

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2003
TO THE EDITOR: The excellent study of sex and coronary revascularization by Ghali and colleagues (1) highlights an important question facing those who use observational data to investigate ethnic and gender disparities: Are administrative databases sufficiently detailed to control for potential confounders in the relationship of ethnicity and sex to ...
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Sex differences at puberty

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1970
The physical changes which take place at puberty in both sexes may be classified under the following headings:(1)Morphological. The rate of growth increases but this acceleration is greater in some dimensions than others so that the overall shape of the body changes, i.e. the rate of change in both size and shape alters.(2)Body composition.
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