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High School Knee Injuries Compared By Sport And Gender In First Of Its Kind Study

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 24, 2008

EXCERPT: "Researchers also found several interesting gender patterns. For example, while boys had a higher overall rate of knee injury, girls' knee injuries were more severe. Girls were more likely to miss > 3 weeks of sports activity (as opposed to <1 week for boys) and were twice as likely to require surgery. Girls were also found to be twice as likely to incur major knee injuries as a result of non-contact mechanisms, often involving landing, jumping or pivoting."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Ingram JG, Fields SK, Yard EE, Comstock RD. Epidemiology of knee injuries among boys and girls in US high school athletics. Am J Sports Med. 2008 Jun;36(6):1116-22. Epub 2008 Mar 28.

Gender Disparity In Community-Acquired Pneumonia

SOURCE: Medical News Today       

DATE:  May 20, 2008

EXCERPT: "When men present in emergency departments with pneumonia, they are likely to be sicker than women and have a greater risk of dying over the next year, despite the more aggressive medical care they receive .... [which may be related to] differences in genetic or inflammatory factors between men and women.   more

Community-Acquired Pneumonia Harder On Men Than Women

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  May 19, 2008

EXCERPT: "Men who come to the hospital with pneumonia generally are sicker than women and have a higher risk of dying over the next year, despite aggressive medical care ..."    more

Alcohol Cravings In Response To Negative Emotions Felt More Acutely By Men

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 13, 2008

EXCERPT: "Women and men tend to have different types of stress-related psychological disorders. Women have greater rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders than men, while men have greater rates of alcohol-use disorders than women. A new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress has found that when men become upset, they are more likely than women to want alcohol."   more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Results will be published in the July issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research

The Role Of Gender In Disease Should Be Considered In Medical Research

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 13, 2008

EXCERPT:  "Are the health needs of women adequately addressed by medical research as it is currently conducted? ....  The researchers say a growing body of evidence shows important differences between men and women related to the incidence of certain diseases, how they respond to treatment and the long-term outcomes."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Rogers WA, Ballantyne AJ; Australian Gender Equity in Health Research Group. Exclusion of women from clinical research: myth or reality?Mayo Clin Proc. 2008 May;83(5):536-42.

Nation's Largest Medical Specialty Organization Issues New Guideline For Screening For Osteoporosis In Men

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE: May 8, 2008

EXCERPT: "Osteoporosis is often viewed as a women's health issue, but one in 16 men over 65 suffers from the disease, and few men are currently tested or diagnosed. .... New recommendations from ACP call for physicians to screen for osteoporosis in older men, especially those over the age of 65."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:

Liu H, Paige NM, Goldzweig CL, Wong E, Zhou A, Suttorp MJ, Munjas B, Orwoll E, Shekelle P. Screening for osteoporosis in men: a systematic review for an American College of Physicians guideline. Ann Intern Med. 2008 May 6;148(9):685-701.

Docs Issue Guideline on Screening for Osteoporosis in Men

SOURCE: MedlinePlus.gov (HealthDay News)

DATE:  May 7, 2008

EXCERPT: "A new clinical guideline on screening for osteoporosis in men has been developed by the American College of Physicians (ACP), which notes that osteoporosis rates among men are expected to increase 50 percent over the next 15 years."   more  (articles display for 90 days)

Women And Heart Attack: Study Finds Failure To Recognize & Treat

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 7, 2008

EXCERPT: "The gender gap is alive and well in heart disease, a new international study finds, with women differing from men on everything from symptoms to treatment in both heart attack and severe chest pain. 

One of the most striking findings was that women were twice as likely as men to have "normal" or "mild" results on an exam of their heart's blood vessels, with no single blockage taking up more than 50 percent of any one blood vessel.

This was despite the fact that their other test results showed they were definitely having a heart attack, or a form of chest pain called unstable angina."    more

RELATED PUBMED LINK

Dey S, Flather MD, Devlin GP, Brieger D, Gurfinkel EP, Steg PG, Fitzgerald G, Jackson EA, Eagle KA. Sex-related differences in the presentation, treatment and outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndromes. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. Heart. 2008 May 7. [Epub ahead of print]

Heart Attack Warning Signs More Likely To Be Missed Or Ignored By Women

SOURCE: Medical News Today

DATE:  May 5, 2008

EXCERPT: "Many women under age 55 aren't seeking timely treatment for heart attack because they expect the warning signs and their reaction to follow a Hollywood script - tightening in the chest, shortness of breath, clutching the chest while dropping to one knee."   more

Trends In Heart Mortality Reversing In Younger Women

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  May 3, 2008

EXCERPT: "Coronary heart disease mortality in younger women could be on the rise, according to findings in the open access journal, BMC Public Health, published by BioMed Central. High levels of smoking, increasing obesity and a lack of exercise could all be contributing to this disturbing trend, seen in women under the age of 50."  more

RELATED PUBMED LINK:
Harambat J, Fassinou P, Becquet R, Toure P, Rouet F, Dabis F, Msellati P, Blanche S, Timite-Konan M, Salamon R, Leroy V.18-month occurrence of severe events among early diagnosed HIV-infected children before antiretroviral therapy in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire: a cohort study. BMC Public Health. 2008 May 20;8(1):169. [Epub ahead of print]