Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?

By Gender Differences, Theresa M. Wizemann, M. Pardue. Journal of Womens Health & Gender-Based Medicine, 2001

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Estrogen Actions in the Brain and the Basis for Differential Action in Men and Women: A Case for Sex-Specific Medicines (2010, background): “This is distinct from the term gender, used to refer to a human subject’s self-representation as male or female (Wizeman and Pardue, 2001).”
• Gendered experiences in midlife: Implications for age identity (2005, background): “…than men, they also face higher risks of many chronic illnesses and symptoms, such as anemia, migraines, thyroid conditions, urinary diseases, and many autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis (McDonough & Walters, 2001; Verbrugge, 1989; Wizemann & Pardue, 2001).”
• Women’s involvement in clinical trials: historical perspective and future implications (2016, background): “Other variations between the sexes include protein binding, biotransformation, and even pharmacodynamic characteristics related to receptor and enzyme levels.(1)”
• Strategies and methods for research on sex differences in brain and behavior. (2005, background): “In 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Understanding the Biology of Sex and Gender Differences published its findings in a landmark report, " Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health: Does Sex Matter?”
• Sex Differences in the Brain: The Not So Inconvenient Truth (2012, background): “In 2001 the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S.A., concluded that many aspects of both normal and pathological brain functioning exhibit important yet poorly understood sex differences (Wizemann and Pardu, 2001).”