Health Is Affected by Both Sex and Gender

Integrating SEX and GENDER differences into medical education is KEY
to creating evidence-based personalized medicine for men and women.

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.

There are Sex and Gender Differences with Covid-19, including

• Health Based Differences
• Equity Issues
• Reproductive Health and Pregnancy Concerns
• And more
• Information and resources can be found HERE

NEW TEXTBOOK!

How Sex and Gender Impact Clinical Practice: An Evidence-Based Guide to Patient Care

Online SGBM Courses

• Sex and Gender Specific Health
• NIH Modules