Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer’s Disease Recommendations for Future Research Christine L. Carter, PhD, MPH, Eileen M. Resnick, PhD, Monica Mallampalli, PhD, and Anna Kalbarczyk, MPH Abstract Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) disproportionately affects women in both prevalence and severity; however, the biological mechanisms underlying these sex differences are not fully understood. Sex differences in the [...]
Read More Alzheimer's, brain, Cognition, Neurology, SWHRRecommendations for future research (2012) Carter CL, Resnick EM, Mallampalli M, Kalbarczyk A.SourceScientific Affairs, Society for Women’s Health Research, Washington, DC 20036, USA. [email protected] AbstractAlzheimer’s disease (AD) disproportionately affects women in both prevalence and severity; however, the biologic mechanisms underlying these sex differences are not fully understood. Sex differences in the brain, such as in [...]
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By Neelum Aggarwal, MD, member of the SGWHC Over the last year I have attended conferences devoted to Sex and Gender Issues in Medicine and was pleased to see that the Society for Women’s Health Research recently published an article that outlined the latest state of the science in sex and gender differences in [...]
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