One of the tricky things about heart disease is that the symptoms of heart attack may be more subtle in
women than in men.
Previous research had shown that among new fathers, testosterone levels were
lower than in men of the same age who didn't have children.
Higher levels of dietary folate in men have been related to the presence of fewer abnormal sperm
than in those men with a low intake of folate.
As a health writer I know these aren't textbook signs of a heart attack, but I also know that dangerous cardiovascular events in women can be more
subtle than those in men.
«Parental Love is an instinct stronger in
woman than in man, at least in the early childhood of its object».
However, even after adjusting for age and BMI (a surrogate measure for obesity), the prevalence of subnormal free testosterone levels in men with type 2 diabetes is
higher than in men without.
With the exception of a slight difference in bowel function, investigators found that HRQoL outcomes for patients on AS were no different
than those in men without prostate cancer during the three years of followup.
A global study showed that there were sex differences among various risk factors for MI; besides diabetes, also hypertension, low physical activity, and high alcohol intake were stronger predictors for MI in women
rather than in men (270).
However, because women are more relationally oriented then men, a sexual addiction in a woman will look much
different than in a man's struggle with sex addiction.
MONDAY, Jan. 25, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Heart attacks in women often have different causes and
symptoms than those in men, and they're deadlier, too.
Your gender Adding insult to injury: In women, the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)-- which breaks down alcohol in the stomach — can work less
efficiently than in men, says Scott Walters, PhD, associate professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
For example, the odds of an adverse drug reaction in women is 50 percent
greater than in men, women are more likely to be hospitalized because of an adverse drug reaction, and 80 percent of the drugs removed from the market by the FDA were because of undesirable adverse effects in women.»
A multiethnic cohort study suggested that caffeinated (but not decaffeinated) coffee consumption was much more protective against diabetes in women of all ethnic
groups than in men, where the effect was smaller24.
Waiting till the symptoms manifest is really letting your body down.You need to support the physiological changes your body experiences over time.This is more apparent in women
than in men who go through andropause or male menopause, as a woman's hormonal fluctuation is more difficult to balance.
Timmons, B.W., Bar - Or, O. and Riddell, M.C. (2003) Oxidation rate of exogenous carbohydrate during exercise is higher in
boys than in men.
Part comedy of manners, part morality tale, Little Women is more interested in its heroines «conquering themselves»
than in a man conquering their hearts.
These include: finding new life after betrayal / trauma, assessing and treating ADHD and Asperger's (especially in girls and women, because the symptoms appear
differently than in men), and exploring issues of sexuality and gender identity and health.»
When glucose tolerance deteriorates toward IGM, insulin sensitivity in women is reduced
more than in men.
Being a woman is a risk factor for thyroid cancer, which occurs about three times as often in
women than in men in the U.S.
But, our findings show that in women with type 1 diabetes this «female protection» seems to be lost and excess deaths in women with type 1 diabetes are
higher than in men with the disease.»
[2] In absolute terms, death rates remain highest in men with type 1 diabetes, but these results show that within - sex excess mortality is higher in women
than in men with the disease.
Diabetes appears to diminish the in general more favorable cluster of risk factors of females compared with males, leading to greater differences in central adiposity and risk factors related to coagulation and inflammation between diabetes and nondiabetes in women
rather than in men (33).
Adding insult to injury: In women, the enzyme aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH)-- which breaks down alcohol in the stomach — can work less
efficiently than in men, says Scott Walters, PhD, associate professor at the University of Texas School of Public Health.
Stress incontinence is more common in women
than in men, and the incidence increases with age...
That's because the rate of autism in women is much lower
than that in men, and it is thought that women can carry the same genetic risk factors without having any signs of autism.
Some, however, show up much more often in women
than in men, she finds.
«It's pretty well - known that disparities in obesity are more in women
than in men, but I thought surely we would get rid of 50 percent of the disparity, not just 10,» Sen said.
The researchers note that progesterone, a hormone that tends to be higher in women
than in men, may have a protective effect in these injuries.
The effect was more prominent in women
than in men.
Alcohol abuse does its neurological damage more quickly in women
than in men, new research suggests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that fibromyalgia affects more than five million adults annually in the U.S., with significantly higher occurrence rates in women
than in men.
A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women
than in men.
«But these data confirm that the initial viral load is much lower in women
than in men and consequently not as predictive for women.»
Oestrogen levels are higher in women
than in men, so if alcohol interacts with these molecules and stops them from damaging DNA, the reduction in kidney - cancer rates would be larger for women than for men.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine reports that short - term insomnia disorder lasting less than three months occurs in 15 to 20 percent of adults and is more prevalent in women
than in men.
Both types of insomnia are more common in women
than in men.
It takes more mutations to trigger autism in women
than in men, which may explain why men are four times more likely to have the disorder
Previously, researchers found that stress - induced reduced blood supply to the heart happened more often in women under age 50
than in men and older women.
The effects of CVD are often worse in women
than in men.
The researchers also found evidence that the protective effect of 10398G is stronger in women
than in men — hinting at a possible explanation for the sex difference doctors have seen.
In both cases, gastric emptying was found to be slower in women
than in men, although the etiology of this sex difference remains to be clarified (214).
In addition, a recent metaanalysis showed that the relative risk of myocardial infarction (MI), an important and frequent complication in diabetic subjects, conferred by smoking appears to be 25 % higher in women
than in men (138).