Race and ethnicity: Risk factors for fungal infections?

JD Jenks, CI Aneke, MM Al-Obaidi, M Egger… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Racial and ethnic identities, largely understood as social rather than biologic constructs,
may impact risk for acquiring infectious diseases, including fungal infections. Risk factors …

Sex contextualism in laboratory research: enhancing rigor and precision in the study of sex-related variables

M Pape, M Miyagi, SA Ritz, M Boulicault… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Understanding sex-related variation in health and illness requires rigorous and precise
approaches to revealing underlying mechanisms. A first step is to recognize that sex is not in …

The epidemiology of long coronavirus disease in US adults

MKM Robertson, SA Qasmieh… - Clinical Infectious …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background We estimated the prevalence of long COVID and impact on daily living among a
representative sample of adults in the United States. Methods We conducted a population …

Sex-differences in COVID-19 diagnosis, risk factors and disease comorbidities: A large US-based cohort study

SA Kharroubi, M Diab-El-Harake - Frontiers in public health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 are higher among men, however,
underlying pathways remain controversial. We aim to investigate sex-gender differences in …

[HTML][HTML] Support amid uncertainty: Long COVID illness experiences and the role of online communities

D Russell, NJ Spence, JAD Chase, T Schwartz… - … -Qualitative Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Long COVID is characterized by persistent and debilitating long-term symptoms from COVID-
19. Many persons with Long COVID began gathering in online communities during the early …

[HTML][HTML] A Gender Hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events

KMN Lee, T Rushovich, A Gompers, M Boulicault… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmacovigilance databases contain larger numbers of adverse drug events (ADEs) that
occurred in women compared to men. The cause of this disparity is frequently attributed to …

Sex hormones in SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility: key players or confounders?

N Lott, CE Gebhard, S Bengs, A Haider… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has a clear sex
disparity in clinical outcomes. Hence, the interaction between sex hormones, virus entry …

Impact of sex and gender on post-COVID-19 syndrome, Switzerland, 2020

CE Gebhard, C Sütsch, P Gebert, B Gysi… - …, 2024 - eurosurveillance.org
Background Women are overrepresented among individuals with post-acute sequelae of
SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Biological (sex) as well as sociocultural (gender) differences …

Periodontitis and COVID-19: immunological characteristics, related pathways, and association

M Qi, W Sun, K Wang, W Li, J Lin, J Gong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Both periodontitis and Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pose grave threats to public
health and social order, endanger human life, and place a significant financial strain on the …

Widening gender gap in life expectancy in the US, 2010-2021

BW Yan, E Arias, AC Geller, DR Miller… - JAMA Internal …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| Analyses were performed from March to July 2023 using Stata, version 17.0
(StataCorp LLC) and Office Excel (Microsoft). Using mortality data from the National Center …