Sex/Gender-Specific Medicine in Clinical Areas
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Sex/gender-specific medicine (SGM) is defined as the practice of medicine based on the understanding that biology and social roles are important in men and women for prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Current research demonstrates differences in disease incidence, symptomatology, morbidity, and mortality depending on sex and gender. Sex/gender-specific medicine is a fundamental aspect of tailored therapy and precision medicine. Therefore, the variables must be considered in medical education and practice as well as in research models ranging from human participants, animals and…mehr

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Sex/gender-specific medicine (SGM) is defined as the practice of medicine based on the understanding that biology and social roles are important in men and women for prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. Current research demonstrates differences in disease incidence, symptomatology, morbidity, and mortality depending on sex and gender. Sex/gender-specific medicine is a fundamental aspect of tailored therapy and precision medicine. Therefore, the variables must be considered in medical education and practice as well as in research models ranging from human participants, animals and cells. This concept could be applied in the whole clinical areas from Neuroscience, Psychiatry, Gastroenterology, Cardiology, and Rehabilitation, etc. Nowadays estrogen is known to play a key role in the prevention of colon cancer and in the resistant progression of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, especially in women. This book covers the sex/gender-specific medicine in the whole clinical areas in the adults as well as in the pediatrics. In addition, research results of basic science are also introduced in the colon cancer and Alzheimer's disease.

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Dr Nayoung Kim worked at Membrane Biology Laboratory, UCLA Medical School, USA as a Research Scholar (1999-2002). Her research focuses on the sex- and -gender specific medicine, functional dyspepsia, various aspects of Helicobacter pylori, gastroesophageal reflux disease, gut microbiome and age-dependent changes of gastrointestinal (GI) organ with its function. She actively participates in Korean Academic Society activities and has served as a deputy editor for a well-known international journal and a Congress Chairwoman of Korean Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility from April 2015 till April 2017. She was Vice President of Korea Federation of Women Science and Technology Association (KOFWST) from Jan. 2018 till Dec. 2019. She has about 242 SCI publications in the various GI areas as a first author or corresponding author and the citation number was 11,632 times (Dec. 10th, 2023). She received Marshall Warren Lectureship Award in 2018 at APDW 2018.