The Case for Sex- and Gender-Specific Medicine C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD; Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, MD There are numerous differences in cardiovascular disease (CVD) between men and women. Women have a higher prevalence of coronary microvascular dysfunction, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, Tako-Tsubo syndrome (also known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy), and post–myocardial infarction depression than men. Women also have a […]
cardiac, Cardiac Disease, Cardiology, Cardiovascular disease, CVD, Depression, Gender-Specific
A Study of Opposite-Sex Twins In a recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, sex differences in the etiology of major depression were studied in fraternal (sisters and brothers) twins. Women more often reacted to deficiencies in caring relationships and interpersonal loss, while men reacted to failure to achieve expected goals and lowered self-worth. […]
depressed, Depression, psychiatry, TwinsSex Differences in the Pathways to Major Depression: A Study of Opposite-Sex Twin Pairs ABSTRACT Objective The authors sought to clarify the nature of sex differences in the etiologic pathways to major depression. Method Retrospective and prospective assessments of 20 developmentally organized risk factors and the occurrence of past-year major depression were conducted […]
depressed, Depression, psychiatry, TwinsNot all depression is created equal: sex interacts with disease to precipitate depression Christina L Nemeth, Constance S Harrell, Kevin D Beck and Gretchen N Neigh Sex differences exist in depression, specifically with neuroendocrine and immune reactions that may initiate depressive symptoms more often in one sex more than the other, including: epilepsy, Alzheimer’s […]
Cancer, Cardiology, CVD, Depression, Neurology