Do You Know These Differences?

• Women are susceptible to potentially lethal arrhythmias when they take some of the very medications which stabilize rhythm in men.
• Men and women absorb and metabolize pain killers and anesthetics differently.
• Melanoma is more common on the legs in women, and on the head and neck in men.
• Men are more likely than women to die within 6 months of an osteoporotic hip fracture.
• Zolpidem is the only FDA approved medication with different dosages recommended by sex thus far.
• In acute stroke, tPA (the clot-dissolving medication) is twice as likely to be given to men.
• Aspirin therapy decreases risk of MI in men (but not stroke), while reducing stroke (but not MI) in women.