RT Book, Section
A1 Dunaif, Andrea
A2 Jameson, J. Larry
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Hauser, Stephen L.
A2 Longo, Dan L.
A2 Loscalzo, Joseph
SR Print(0)
ID 1155955712
T1 Women’s Health
T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644016
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155955712
RD 2024/04/20
AB The  clinical  discipline  of  women’s  health  is  well  established.  Indeed,  its  emphasis  on  greater  attention  to  patient  education  and  medical  decision-making  is  a  paradigm  for  what  has  become  known  as  patient-centered  health  care.  Moreover,  the  recognition  of  sex  differences  in  disease  processes  and  health  outcomes  is  an  important  example  of  precision  medicine.  Sex  difference  refers  to  the  biologic  differences  conferred  by  sex  chromosomes  and  hormones.  In  contrast,  gender  differences  are  related  to  psychosocial  roles  and  cultural  expectations.  The  study  of  sex  differences  continues  to  grow  as  a  scientific  discipline.  In  2016,  the  National  Institutes  of  Health  recognized  its  importance  by  implementing  the  expectation  that  sex  should  be  considered  as  a  biologic  variable  in  study  designs,  analyses,  and  reporting  in  not  only  human  but  also  vertebrate  animal  research.  Strong  scientific  justification  must  be  provided  to  limit  research  to  only  one  sex.