Somatic symptom reporting in women and men

By A. Barsky, Heli M. Peekna, J. Borus. Journal of general internal medicine, 2001

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Post-COVID syndrome in non-hospitalised patients with COVID-19: a longitudinal prospective cohort study (2021, background): “However, this may be because women are more prone to report their symptoms to a doctor [28].”
Predictors of Postoperative Pain and Analgesic Consumption: A Qualitative Systematic Review (2009, background): “It can also be attributed to a different socialization processes for men and women that influence bodily experience and the willingness to communicate distress.(110) Hormone variations,(111) neurotransmitters that can influence patient perception of pain, and pharmacokinetic variations may also occu”
“Brave Men” and “Emotional Women”: A Theory-Guided Literature Review on Gender Bias in Health Care and Gendered Norms towards Patients with Chronic Pain (2018, background): “Some studies claimed that women, to a greater degree thanmen, are used to internal pain, because of menstruation and child birth [6, 8, 13, 47, 51, 68].”