Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era

ISBN-10: 0128035064
ISBN-13: 9780128035061
Series: Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine
Pages: 800
Language: English
Published: 2017-08-01
Publisher: Academic Press
Author: Marianne J. Legato

Description

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine: Gender in the Genomic Era, Third Edition focuses on the essentials of gender-specific medicine and the current research on sex and gender differences in human physiology and pathophysiology. All chapters progress translationally from basic science to clinical applications of gender-specific therapies, drugs or treatments. Sections on drug metabolism, aging and meta-analysis of data are incorporated into all disease-specific chapters. This book is essential reading for all researchers and graduate students who research and/or teach gender-specific medicine or sex-based biology. Any practitioner who does primary care and needs information about sex and gender concepts will also find it useful as it discusses the important areas of diagnosis, treatment, pharmacology and outcomes by sex. Offers insight into how the gender-specific risks of one organ system's disease affects the health of other organ systems Outlines the sex-specific differences of normal anatomy and physiology Illustrates the gender-specific features and quantifies gender and sex as risk factors across all major diseases Qualifies and analyzes the results of new drug therapies designed with gender-specific differences in mind Reviews how new NIH guidelines on sex-specific research will change pre-clinical research and analysis of research results