The impact of sex and gender on stroke

KM Rexrode, TE Madsen, AYX Yu, C Carcel… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Women face a disproportionate burden of stroke mortality and disability. Biologic sex and
sociocultural gender both contribute to differences in stroke risk factors, assessment …

Sex differences in stroke: challenges and opportunities

CD Bushnell, S Chaturvedi, KR Gage… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Biologic sex influences many variables that are important to brain health in general, and to
stroke or cerebral ischemia in particular, such as general health status, cerebrovascular …

Importance of sex and gender in ischaemic stroke and carotid atherosclerotic disease

K Gasbarrino, D Di Iorio… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Women are disproportionately
affected by stroke, exhibiting higher mortality and disability rates post-stroke than men …

Sex differences in presentation of stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis

M Ali, HJA van Os, N van der Weerd, JW Schoones… - Stroke, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose: Women have worse outcomes than men after stroke. Differences
in presentation may lead to misdiagnosis and, in part, explain these disparities. We …

Sex differences in stroke: review of current knowledge and evidence

RL Girijala, F Sohrabji, RL Bush - Vascular medicine, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Stroke is a leading cause of death among women in the United States, and women are more
affected by stroke than men. With women living longer than men, women experience not …

Effect of caffeine consumption on the risk for neurological and psychiatric disorders: sex differences in human

HJ Jee, SG Lee, KJ Bormate, YS Jung - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Caffeine occurs naturally in various foods, such as coffee, tea, and cocoa, and it has been
used safely as a mild stimulant for a long time. However, excessive caffeine consumption …

Sex differences in the evaluation and treatment of acute ischaemic stroke

C Bushnell, VJ Howard, L Lisabeth, V Caso… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
With the greater availability of treatments for acute ischaemic stroke, including advances in
endovascular therapy, personalised assessment of patients before treatment is more …

Cerebral ischemic stroke: is gender important?

CL Gibson - Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Cerebral stroke continues to be a major cause of death and the leading cause of long-term
disability in developed countries. Evidence reviewed here suggests that gender influences …

Outcome after acute ischemic stroke is linked to sex-specific lesion patterns

AK Bonkhoff, MD Schirmer, M Bretzner, S Hong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Acute ischemic stroke affects men and women differently. In particular, women are often
reported to experience higher acute stroke severity than men. We derived a low-dimensional …

Sex matters in stroke: a review of recent evidence on the differences between women and men

C Carcel, M Woodward, X Wang, C Bushnell… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - Elsevier
For the most part, stroke is a disease of old age. With the predicted increase in the aged
population and longer life expectancies, the number and proportion of people living with …