Why Does Asthma Treat the Genders Differently?

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Of the three things you list, two are sex and one may be gender. We have two words for a reason.
If there is a gender-difference issue, we need to address the way women behave. If it's a sex-difference issue, we need to address the way we treat women's asthma.

Med Bat of TX 10:21PM May 25, 2010

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Tjyutqjs of TN 1:40AM July 15, 2009

Wow, I really have an agreement with this article. When I'm a little boy, some symptoms which look like Asthma put me to torture. The every symptoms, however, taper off as I grown up.
I just thought that I got a healthy immunity to a disease such as cold, asthma, things like that. But everything was related to gender in particular hormons, Anatomical differences and the susceptible extend to environment trigger. That's very interesting.

of 1:23AM August 16, 2008

As a kid, I had severe ragweed hay fever, but not asthma except in a couple of instances of extreme over-exposure to ragweed itself and once to a hay-fever-prevention shot I had been given.
At about age 25, a Doctor of Osteopathy gave me a seven-day round of Prednisone (a type of steroid) pills and I never had either hay fever or asthma again. It's been 30 years.

of 1:13PM August 15, 2008