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  1. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have emerged in the healthcare setting worldwide. Infections with these pathogens, i.e., bloodstream infections (BSI), are accompanied with an impaired patient outcome. D...

    Authors: Carlos L. Correa-Martínez, Franziska Schuler and Stefanie Kampmeier

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:36

    Content type: Review

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  3. Adverse drug events, including adverse drug reactions (ADRs), are responsible for approximately 5% of unplanned hospital admissions: a major health concern. Women are 1.5–1.7 times more likely to develop ADRs....

    Authors: L. C. Hendriksen, P. D. van der Linden, A. L. M. Lagro-Janssen, P. M. L. A. van den Bemt, S. J. Siiskonen, M. Teichert, J. G. Kuiper, R. M. C. Herings, B. H. Stricker and L. E. Visser

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:34

    Content type: Research

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  4. The soluble prorenin receptor (sPRR), a member of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), is elevated in plasma of patients with preeclampsia, hypertension, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and type 2 diabetes. Our g...

    Authors: Bruna Visniauskas, Danielle Y. Arita, Carla B. Rosales, Mohammed A. Feroz, Christina Luffman, Michael J. Accavitti, Gabrielle Dawkins, Jennifer Hong, Andrew C. Curnow, Tina K. Thethi, John J. Lefante, Edgar A. Jaimes, Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, Vivian A. Fonseca and Minolfa C. Prieto

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:33

    Content type: Research

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  5. Men have been, and still are, included in more studies than women, in large part because of the lingering belief that ovulatory cycles result in women showing too much variability to be economically viable sub...

    Authors: Benjamin L. Smarr, Annick Laure Ishami and Aaron E. Schirmer

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:32

    Content type: Research

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  6. Preeclampsia is a dangerous cardiovascular disorder of pregnancy that leads to an increased risk of future cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. Much of the pathogenesis and mechanisms involved in cardiac he...

    Authors: Claire Richards, Kimberly Sesperez, Michael Chhor, Sahar Ghorbanpour, Claire Rennie, Clara Liu Chung Ming, Chris Evenhuis, Valentina Nikolic, Natasa Karadzov Orlic, Zeljko Mikovic, Milan Stefanovic, Zoran Cakic, Kristine McGrath, Carmine Gentile, Kristen Bubb and Lana McClements

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:31

    Content type: Research

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  7. The association of several comorbidities, including diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, heart failure and chronic kidney or liver disease, with acute kidney injury (AKI) is well establishe...

    Authors: Charalampos Loutradis, Luke Pickup, Jonathan P. Law, Indranil Dasgupta, Jonathan N. Townend, Paul Cockwell, Adnan Sharif, Pantelis Sarafidis and Charles J. Ferro

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:30

    Content type: Research

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  8. Previous studies have described sex-based differences in the epidemiological and clinical patterns of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); however, we understand relatively little regarding the underlyin...

    Authors: José F. Català-Senent, Marta R. Hidalgo, Marina Berenguer, Gopanandan Parthasarathy, Harmeet Malhi, Pablo Malmierca-Merlo, María de la Iglesia-Vayá and Francisco García-García

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:29

    Content type: Research

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  10. Ethanol use is related to a wide variety of negative health outcomes, including cardiovascular diseases. Stress is also involved in numerous pathologies, such as cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorde...

    Authors: Paula C. Bianchi, Lucas Gomes-de-Souza, Willian Costa-Ferreira, Paola Palombo, Paulo E. Carneiro de Oliveira, Sheila A. Engi, Rodrigo M. Leão, Cleopatra S. Planeta, Carlos C. Crestani and Fabio C. Cruz

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:27

    Content type: Research

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  11. Fetal sex is known to affect pregnancy outcomes. In current clinical practice, monitoring of fetal well-being is based on Doppler ultrasound measurements of major placental and fetal vessels. The objective of ...

    Authors: Dakshita Jagota, Hannah George, Melissa Walker, Anjana Ravi Chandran, Natasha Milligan, Shiri Shinar, Clare L. Whitehead, Sebastian R. Hobson, Lena Serghides, W. Tony Parks, Ahmet A. Baschat, Christopher K. Macgowan, John G. Sled, John C. Kingdom and Lindsay S. Cahill

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:26

    Content type: Research

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  14. In this paper, we argue for Gender as a Sociocultural Variable (GASV) as a complement to Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV). Sex (biology) and gender (sociocultural behaviors and attitudes) interact to influe...

    Authors: Mathias W. Nielsen, Marcia L. Stefanick, Diana Peragine, Torsten B. Neilands, John P. A. Ioannidis, Louise Pilote, Judith J. Prochaska, Mark R. Cullen, Gillian Einstein, Ineke Klinge, Hannah LeBlanc, Hee Young Paik and Londa Schiebinger

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:23

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  15. Sensory perception and emotional disorders are disproportionally represented in men and women and are thus thought to be modulated by different sex hormones in various conditions. Among the most important horm...

    Authors: Qing Chen, Wenxin Zhang, Neeti Sadana and Xinzhong Chen

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:22

    Content type: Review

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  16. Males and females may experience different effects of early-life adversity on life-long health. One hypothesis is that male foetuses invest more in foetal growth and relatively less in placental growth, and th...

    Authors: Julian K. Christians, Haroop K. Shergill and Arianne Y. K. Albert

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:21

    Content type: Review

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  17. Determine if sex differences exist in clinical characteristics and outcomes of adults hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a US healthcare system.

    Authors: Yilin Yoshida, Scott A. Gillet, Margo I. Brown, Yuanhao Zu, Sarah M. Wilson, Sabreen J. Ahmed, Saritha Tirumalasetty, Dragana Lovre, Marie Krousel-Wood, Joshua L. Denson and Franck Mauvais-Jarvis

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:20

    Content type: Research

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  18. There is growing evidence of sex differences in placental vascular development. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of fetal sex on uterine artery pulsatility index (PI) throughout gestat...

    Authors: Leah Paranavitana, Melissa Walker, Anjana Ravi Chandran, Natasha Milligan, Shiri Shinar, Clare L. Whitehead, Sebastian R. Hobson, Lena Serghides, W. Tony Parks, Ahmet A. Baschat, Christopher K. Macgowan, John G. Sled, John C. Kingdom and Lindsay S. Cahill

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:19

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  19. The mortality of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is usually lower in females than in males, but the underlying mechanism remains largely unknown. We sought to describe the age-dependent patterns of gender dispa...

    Authors: Wang-Zhong Li, Shu-Hui Lv, Guo-Ying Liu, Hu Liang, Wei-Xiong Xia and Yan-Qun Xiang

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:18

    Content type: Research

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  20. A significant positive association was found in previous studies among obesity, visceral fat accumulation, and hyperuricemia. The purpose of this study was to explore the association between the ratio of visce...

    Authors: Xiao-He Wang, Wei-Ran Jiang, Min-Ying Zhang, Ying-Xin Shi, Yun-Ping Ji, Chun-Jun Li and Jing-Na Lin

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:17

    Content type: Research

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  22. In addition to biological sex, gender, defined as the sociocultural dimension of being a woman or a man, plays a central role in health. However, there are so far few approaches to quantify gender in a retrosp...

    Authors: Ahmad Tauseef Nauman, Hassan Behlouli, Nicholas Alexander, Friederike Kendel, Johanna Drewelies, Konstantinos Mantantzis, Nora Berger, Gert G. Wagner, Denis Gerstorf, Ilja Demuth, Louise Pilote and Vera Regitz-Zagrosek

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:15

    Content type: Research

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  23. Sex differences in experimental stroke outcomes are well documented, such that adult males have a greater infarct volume, increased stroke-induced mortality, and more severe sensory-motor impairment. Based on ...

    Authors: Yumna El-Hakim, Kathiresh Kumar Mani, Amir Eldouh, Sivani Pandey, Maria T. Grimaldo, Alan Dabney, Rachel Pilla and Farida Sohrabji

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:14

    Content type: Research

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  24. Men have a higher risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) early in life, while women have a higher risk later in life. The sex-related differences in CVD risk, especially by age, could be related to sphingolipid...

    Authors: Mirthe Muilwijk, Nardie Callender, Susan Goorden, Frédéric M. Vaz and Irene G. M. van Valkengoed

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:13

    Content type: Research

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  25. Over the last decades, a central role for vitamin D in immune modulation has been well established. The active form of vitamin D, i.e., 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, through the interaction with vitamin D receptor,...

    Authors: Maria Luisa Dupuis, Maria Teresa Pagano, Marina Pierdominici and Elena Ortona

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:12

    Content type: Review

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  26. Normotensive premenopausal women show a vagal predominance of cardiac autonomic modulation, whereas age-matched men show a predominance of sympathetic modulation. However, some women develop systemic arterial ...

    Authors: Stella V. Philbois, Tábata P. Facioli, Ada C. Gastaldi, Jhennyfer A. L. Rodrigues, Jens Tank, Thauane H. Fares, Karine P. Rodrigues and Hugo C. D. Souza

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:11

    Content type: Research

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  27. Early life adversity is widely recognized as a key risk factor for early developmental perturbations and contributes to the presentation of neuropsychiatric disorders in adulthood. Neurodevelopmental disorders...

    Authors: Eldin Jašarević, Patrick M. Hecht, Kevin L. Fritsche, David C. Geary, Rocío M. Rivera and David Q. Beversdorf

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:10

    Content type: Research

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  28. Differences in outcomes for women and men after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in chronic total occlusion (CTO) patients remain controversial. Herein, we compared the clinical outcomes by sex in CTO ...

    Authors: Xuhe Gong, Li Zhou, Xiaosong Ding, Hongwei Li and Hui Chen

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:9

    Content type: Research

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  29. Sex differences in stroke have been attributed to the neuroprotective effects of estrogen, yet most clinical trials of estrogen supplementation for stroke prevention have failed. The contribution of sex hormon...

    Authors: Bharti Manwani, Pamela Fall, Liang Zhu, Meaghan Roy O’Reilly, Sarah Conway, Ilene Staff and Louise D. McCullough

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:8

    Content type: Research

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  30. Cellular sex has rarely been considered as a biological variable in preclinical research, even when the pathogenesis of diseases with predictable sex differences is studied. In this perspective, proteomics, an...

    Authors: Maria Grazia Cattaneo, Cristina Banfi, Maura Brioschi, Donatella Lattuada and Lucia M. Vicentini

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:7

    Content type: Research

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  31. Fetal sex is known to modify the course and complications of pregnancy, with recent evidence of sex-differential fetal influences on the maternal immune and endocrine systems. In turn, heightened inflammation ...

    Authors: Whitney Cowell, Elena Colicino, Talia Askowitz, Farida Nentin and Rosalind J. Wright

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:6

    Content type: Research

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  33. Two important clinical features of preeclampsia (PE) are hypertension and fetal growth restriction. The reduced uterine perfusion pressure (RUPP) preclinical rat model of PE exhibits both of these features. Mo...

    Authors: Mark W. Cunningham Jr, Lorena M. Amaral, Nathan E. Campbell, Denise C. Cornelius, Tarek Ibrahim, Venkata Ramana Vaka and Babbette LaMarca

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:4

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  34. Inadequate copper intake and increased fructose consumption represent two important nutritional problems in the USA. Dietary copper-fructose interactions alter gut microbial activity and contribute to the deve...

    Authors: Ming Song, Fang Yuan, Xiaohong Li, Xipeng Ma, Xinmin Yin, Eric C. Rouchka, Xiang Zhang, Zhongbin Deng, Russell A. Prough and Craig J. McClain

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:3

    Content type: Research

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  35. Shorter telomere length (TL) may indicate premature cellular aging and increased risk for disease. While there is substantial evidence for shorter TL in individuals suffering from psychiatric disorders, data i...

    Authors: Louisia Starnino, Gilles Dupuis, Lambert Busque, Vincent Bourgoin, Marie-Pierre Dubé, David Busseuil and Bianca D’Antono

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:2

    Content type: Research

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  36. Pioglitazone is a promising therapeutic method for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) patients with or without type 2 diabetes. However, there is remarkable variability in treatment response. We analyzed...

    Authors: Hongmei Yan, Weiyun Wu, Xinxia Chang, Mingfeng Xia, Sicheng Ma, Liu Wang and Jian Gao

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2021 12:1

    Content type: Research

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  37. MicroRNAs indirectly orchestrate myriads of essential biological processes. A wide diversity of miRNAs of the neurodevelopmental importance characterizes the brain tissue, which, however, exhibits region-speci...

    Authors: Klaudia Pawlina-Tyszko, Maria Oczkowicz, Artur Gurgul, Tomasz Szmatoła and Monika Bugno-Poniewierska

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:67

    Content type: Research

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  38. Sex differences in clinical characteristics and prognosis of vasospastic angina (VA) have not been well elucidated. This study was performed to investigate sex-specific characteristics and predictors for long-...

    Authors: Hack-Lyoung Kim, Sang-Ho Jo, Hyun-Jin Kim, Min-Ho Lee, Won-Woo Seo and Sang Hong Baek

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:66

    Content type: Research

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  39. Women are more vulnerable than men to the neurotoxicity and severe brain damage caused by chronic heavy alcohol use. In addition, brain damage due to chronic heavy alcohol use may be associated with sex-depend...

    Authors: Mi Ran Choi, Jasmin Sanghyun Han, Yeung-Bae Jin, Sang-Rae Lee, In Young Choi, Heejin Lee, Hyun Cho and Dai-Jin Kim

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:65

    Content type: Research

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  40. Recent evidence by our laboratory demonstrates that women and female mice endogenously express higher endothelial mineralocorticoid receptor (ECMR) than males. Mounting clinical evidence also indicates that al...

    Authors: Jessica L. Faulkner, Emily Lluch, Simone Kennard, Galina Antonova, Iris Z. Jaffe and Eric J. Belin de Chantemèle

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:64

    Content type: Research

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  41. While the higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in women is clear, studies suggest that biological sex may also influence AD pathogenesis. However, mechanisms behind these differences are not clear. To...

    Authors: Dany Arsenault, Cyntia Tremblay, Vincent Emond and Frédéric Calon

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:63

    Content type: Research

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  43. It is a long established fact that sex is an important factor that influences the transcriptional regulatory processes of an organism. However, understanding sex-based differences in gene expression has been l...

    Authors: Tianyuan Lu and Jessica C. Mar

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:61

    Content type: Research

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  44. Women report more work-related pain and neck/shoulder musculoskeletal disorders than men. For the same absolute workload, due to lower strength, females generally work at a higher relative intensity, which cou...

    Authors: Matthew Slopecki, Karen Messing and Julie N. Côté

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:60

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  45. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) is suggested to decrease fatigability in some individuals but not others. Sex differences in response to IPC may account for this variability and few studies systematically inves...

    Authors: Hugo M. Pereira, Felipe F. de Lima, Bruno M. Silva and André F. Kohn

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:59

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  46. Asparagine and aspartate homeostasis are linked with type 2 diabetes (T2D). This study aimed to explore whether asparagine and aspartate metabolism interacted with sex and age to increase the risk of T2D.

    Authors: Hui-Huan Luo, Xiao-Fei Feng, Xi-Lin Yang, Rui-Qin Hou and Zhong-Ze Fang

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:58

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  47. Among the unknowns posed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, the role of biological sex to explain disease susceptibility and progression is still a matter of debate, with limited sex-disaggre...

    Authors: Valeria Raparelli, Luigi Palmieri, Marco Canevelli, Flavia Pricci, Brigid Unim, Cinzia Lo Noce, Emanuele R. Villani, Paula A. Rochon, Louise Pilote, Nicola Vanacore and Graziano Onder

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:57

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  49. Current understanding about health care in the gender diverse population is limited by the lack of community-based, longitudinal data, especially in the USA. We sought to characterize a community-based cohort ...

    Authors: Haleigh A. James, Alice Y. Chang, Reese L. Imhof, Aradhana Sahoo, Monique M. Montenegro, Nicole R. Imhof, Cesar A. Gonzalez, Aida N. Lteif, Todd B. Nippoldt and Caroline J. Davidge-Pitts

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:55

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  50. The incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) during pregnancy precedes a high maternal mortality rate of 20–40%. AKI during pregnancy has multiple etiologies; however, the more common are maternal hypertensive d...

    Authors: Jamie Szczepanski, Shauna-Kay Spencer, Ashley Griffin, Teylor Bowles, Jan Michael Williams, Patrick B. Kyle, John Polk Dumas, Sarah Araji and Kedra Wallace

    Citation: Biology of Sex Differences 2020 11:54

    Content type: Research

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