Women and older men with osteoarthritis (OA) are more likely to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure than those without arthritis. The risk was greatest for patients needing joint replacement surgery, as reported in Arthritis Care & Research. Although rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune forms of arthritis — which are more prevalent in women […]
arthritis, Autoimmune, Cardiology, CVD, inflammatory diseases
Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Osteoarthritis: A Prospective Longitudinal Study M. Mushfiqur Rahman1,*, Jacek A. Kopec1, Aslam H. Anis2, Jolanda Cibere1, Charlie H. Goldsmith3 1University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and Arthritis Research Centre of Canada, Richmond, BC Canada; E-mail: [email protected] of British Columbia and Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences, Vancouver, Canada3Simon […]
arthritis, Autoimmune, Cardiology, inflammatory diseases
In This Case: Sex and Gender Challenges in Sepsis By Traci Madsen, MD Overview: Sex and gender affect the epidemiology, treatment, and outcome of sepsis. This caseillustrates some of the known sex differences in sepsis and postulates the influence sex and gender may have on the presentation of patients with sepsis HPI: EL is […]
Emergency Medicine, infections, inflammatory diseases
Sex and gender differences in travel-associated disease The authors evaluated sex and gender differences in health outcomes and in demographic characteristics and found statistically significant differences in morbidity by sex. A summary of their findings: Women are proportionately more likely than men to present with acute diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, upper respiratory infection; […]
Gastroenterology, Infectious Diseases, inflammatory diseases, travel
