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Gender differences in airway behaviour over the human life span

1999; BMJ; Volume: 54; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/thx.54.12.1119

1468-3296

MR Becklake, F. Kauffmann,

Pediatric health and respiratory diseases

][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Though they have not escaped recognition, they have received less attention than gender diVerences in the rates of, for instance, cardiovascular disease, both in terms of research and their implications for clinical practice. 4 5 10-12Physiologists have in general paid more attention than clinicians to gender diVerences in airway behaviour, even though gender diVerences are an important determinant of the clinical manifestations of airway disease.Similarly, in population based (epidemiological) studies of airway disease, gender is invariably considered a standardising variable rather than a determinant worthy of investigation in its own right. 4However, there have been some notable historical exceptions.