Gender Differences Studied In Risk Of Diseases Caused By Blood Clots

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  July 12, 2008

EXCERPT: "Being male increases your risk of diseases caused by the inappropriate formation of a blood clot (a process known as thrombosis), such as heart attack and stroke, but the reasons for this are not completely understood. However, Ethan Weiss and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, have used a mouse model of thrombosis to shed new light on this matter."  more

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Wong JH, Dukes J, Levy RE, Sos B, Mason SE, Fong TS, Weiss EJ. Abstract. Sex differences in thrombosis in mice are mediated by sex-specific growth hormone secretion patterns. J Clin Invest. 2008 Jul 10. [Epub ahead of print].   Free full-text in PMC.