This book is a concise, easy to read professional text with a focus on practical aspects. All chapters include tables on sex/gender differences in symptoms and management and a series of suggestions to the novice in the field. Chapters are specialty-specific. The focus is not on women's health, but the presentation of differences in clinical symptoms, management and outcomes in women and men. Gender Medicine strives to employ the knowledge about these differences to improve diagnosis, better understand pathogenesis and advance patient-oriented therapy.

This is the very first book to deal with sex and gender differences in drug therapy - an increasingly recognized medical need. It starts with an overview on S/G in clinical syndromes and a documentation of the medical and socioeconomic damage caused by gender specific adverse drug effects. Part I covers S/G differences in pharmacokinetics. Researchers will be satisfied by the detailed discussion of the mechanisms of S/G differences in drug effects that represents cutting edge science and includes interaction of drugs with sex hormones, genomic and epigenetic mechanisms. It also covers S/G in...

This book is a concise, easy to read professional text with a focus on practical aspects. All chapters include tables on sex/gender differences in symptoms and management and a series of suggestions to the novice in the field. Chapters are specialty-specific. The focus is not on women's health, but the presentation of differences in clinical symptoms, management and outcomes in women and men. Gender Medicine strives to employ the knowledge about these differences to improve diagnosis, better understand pathogenesis and advance patient-oriented therapy.

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Das Buch ist ein praxisorientiertes Nachschlagewerk für alle Ärztinnen und Ärzte, die die komplizierten Zusammenhänge zwischen Geschlecht und Gesundheit verstehen wollen. Geschlechtsspezifische Konzepte werden für die Innere Medizin und die Neurologie praxisrelevant aufbereitet – als Information für Kliniker*innen in den internistischen Disziplinen und der Neurologie, daneben auch für Spezialist*innen, die sich mit Pharmakotherapie, Pathophysiologie und Genomik befassen. Die einzelnen Gebiete werden systematisch im Hinblick auf geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in Prävention,...