Gender-specific care of the patient with diabetes: review and recommendations Marianne J. Legato, Andrea Gelzer, Robin Goland, Susana A. Ebner, Sabitha Rajan, Victor Villagra, Mark Kosowski, Writing Group for the Partnership for Gender-Specific Medicine Abstract BACKGROUND: Men and women differ in their experience of diabetes mellitus (DM). For optimal prevention and treatment of the disease, [...]
Read More Cardiology, Depression, diabetes, Endocrinology, hyperlipidemia, MIDonna Krupa(301) 634-7253dkrupa@the-aps.org Bethesda, Md. – More than 100 research scientists will examine hormones, gender and how they can interact to cause heart and kidney disease. The conference, entitled Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pathophysiology, took place in August 2007 in Austin, TX, hosted by the American Physiological Society (APS; www.The-APS.org). Conference [...]
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