A review of sex-related differences in colorectal cancer incidence, screening uptake, routes to diagnosis, cancer stage and survival in the UK

A White, L Ironmonger, RJC Steele, N Ormiston-Smith… - BMC cancer, 2018 - Springer
Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is an illness strongly influenced by sex and gender,
with mortality rates in males significantly higher than females. There is still a dearth of …

Differentiated Caco-2 cell models in food-intestine interaction study: Current applications and future trends

X Ding, X Hu, Y Chen, J Xie, M Ying, Y Wang… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Food-intestine interaction study has always been a hot topic in food science
and nutrition due to diverse physiological functions of intestine. Compared to expensive …

The prevalence of food addiction as assessed by the Yale Food Addiction Scale: a systematic review

KM Pursey, P Stanwell, AN Gearhardt, CE Collins… - Nutrients, 2014 - mdpi.com
Obesity is a global issue and it has been suggested that an addiction to certain foods could
be a factor contributing to overeating and subsequent obesity. Only one tool, the Yale Food …

The effects of two influential early childhood interventions on health and healthy behaviour

G Conti, JJ Heckman, R Pinto - The Economic Journal, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This article examines the long‐term impacts on health and healthy behaviour of two of the
oldest and most widely cited US early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of …

Sex and gender influences on cancer immunotherapy response

A Irelli, MM Sirufo, C D'Ugo, L Ginaldi, M De Martinis - Biomedicines, 2020 - mdpi.com
The global burden of cancer is growing and a wide disparity in the incidence, malignancy
and mortality of different types of cancer between each sex has been demonstrated. The sex …

Pharmacogenomics, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics: interaction with biological differences between men and women

F Franconi, I Campesi - British journal of pharmacology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pharmacological response depends on multiple factors and one of them is sex–gender.
Data on the specific effects of sex–gender on pharmacokinetics, as well as the safety and …

Gender differences in food choice and dietary intake in modern western societies

C Arganini, A Saba, R Comitato, F Virgili… - Public health-social …, 2012 - books.google.com
A significant “male oriented” bias in science is a matter of fact (Marino et al., 2011), even
though the number of women majoring in science has increased dramatically (Yokoo, 1996) …

Vitamin D, calcium, parathyroid hormone, and sex steroids in bone health and effects of aging

HK Bhattarai, S Shrestha, K Rokka… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bone health of the elderly is a major global health concern, since about 1 in 3 women and 1
in 5 men suffer from bone loss and fractures, often called osteoporosis, in old age. Bone …

The good, the bad, and the ugly of pregnancy nutrients and developmental programming of adult disease

CN Hsu, YL Tain - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Maternal nutrition plays a decisive role in developmental programming of many non-
communicable diseases (NCDs). A variety of nutritional insults during gestation can cause …

Understanding sex differences in childhood undernutrition: a narrative review

S Thurstans, C Opondo, A Seal, JC Wells, T Khara… - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Complementing a recent systematic review and meta-analysis which showed that boys are
more likely to be wasted, stunted, and underweight than girls, we conducted a narrative …