{"id":12068,"date":"2021-04-27T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T05:41:33","slug":"gender-bias-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/gender-bias-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"GENDER BIAS IN MEDICINE"},"content":{"rendered":"

GENDER BIAS IN MEDICINE<\/h1>\n

Relevance: G.S paper I: Social Issues: Women Empowerment & Sociology: Women health issues<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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    Context: <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Women\u2019s health has too often been considered a niche area \u2014 even though it involves roughly 50% of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

    Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    International Women\u2019s Day celebrates women\u2019s achievements and raises awareness of the continuing mission towards gender equality. So it\u2019s a good time to be reminded we still need to correct decades \u2014 centuries even \u2014 of gender bias in medicine and medical research.<\/p>\n

    Analysis<\/strong><\/p>\n

    It\u2019s no secret men and women are different. It\u2019s why we have a whole genre of books and jokes about why \u201cmen are from Mars and women are from Venus\u201d.<\/p>\n

    Mentally, physically and biologically, men and women are simply not built the same way. It sounds obvious, but we have only really begun to understand why.<\/p>\n

    These differences have not been reflected accurately in the field of medicine. Women\u2019s health has too often been considered a niche area \u2014 even though it involves roughly 50 per cent of the world\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

    Under-researched and under-diagnosed<\/strong><\/p>\n

    What we do know is that being female puts us at higher risk of some of the most challenging conditions. Autoimmune diseases, for example, affect approximately 8 per cent of the global population, but\u00a078 per cent of those affected are women.<\/p>\n

    Females are three times <\/strong>more likely than males to develop rheumatoid arthritis and four times more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that attacks the\u00a0central nervous system.<\/p>\n

    Women make up two-thirds of people with Alzheimer\u2019s disease, and are three times more likely to have a heart attack than men. Women are at least twice as likely to suffer chronic pain conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and chronic Lyme disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    As author Maya Dusenbery made clear in her book \u201cDoing Harm\u201d, these conditions are under-researched and often go undiagnosed and untreated.<\/p>\n

    Different sex, different symptoms<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Heart disease is another example where sex \u2014 or perhaps sexism \u2014 still plays a huge determining factor. Women are less likely to experience the \u201cclassic\u201d symptoms of a heart attack \u2014 symptoms that were discovered in research led by men, in which most of the participants were men.<\/p>\n

    Women\u2019s most common heart attack symptom<\/strong>, as with men, is chest pain or discomfort. But women are more likely than men to experience some of the\u00a0other common symptoms, particularly shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and back or jaw pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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